Posthumous Portrait of Queen marie Antoinette - 1800 This Louis may have been murdered, or may have died of other causes while imprisoned in the temple, but he may also have survuved after having been exchanged for another sickly child. After his father had been guillotined he became known as Louis XVII. The next younger child, also called Louis then became the second Dauphin. Louis died of natural causes early in the year that the revolution began. The picture shows marie Therese Charlotte de France, madame Royale, and her brother, Louis, Le Dauphin. The last portrait of thirty that Vigee Le Brun painted ofthe doomed queen. Marie Antoinette and her children at Versailles-1788 Portrait of marie Antoinette with Rose -1788 For now I plan on leaving the painting in this gallery until we know more. According to the Detroit Institute the Arts this painting was deemed "not by Vigée Le Brun". Apparently several copies were made of the 1786 work in half length all with alterations in costume. Word from Versailles, via a friend, is that this painting is after the 1786 full length portrait of the Queen in blue holding a book. This portrait was painted for the Ministère des Affaires Etrangères.ĭetroit Institute of Arts. Vigee Le brun was asked to authenticate the painting decades later and signed and added the wrong date. Oil on canvas, Private collection of Hessische Hausstiftung, Kronberg, Germany La reine marie Antoinette dans le parc de Versailles - 1780īlack chalk stump heightened with white chalk on two are in the French state collection, one in US congress ( and was burned or stolen when the british sacked the capitol in 1812), one to Catherine the Great (location now unknown) and two others are missing. Vigee Le Brun made 6 copies of this painting. Oil on canvas, (23-5/8" x 21"), Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Marie Antoinette Biography | Marie Antoinette Bio en Italianoįrom 1779 to 1800 Vigee Le Brun painted approximately Vigée Le Brun's Home Page | Special Galleries
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