Marie antoinette portrait

The Rose of France в Instagram: «⚜️Marie Antoinette, Dauphine de France, at the age of 17. 1771-1773 ⚜️Portrait by the circle of Martin Van Meytens. ⚜️ This is one of the…»

The queen's marriage got a revealing start - perhaps signaling worse to come. What caused the diamond-studded wardrobe malfunction on the dauphine's big day?

Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun made the rich look beautiful, before and after the French Revolution. Now she has a show of her own at the Met.

It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful...

Self-portrait with cerise ribbons by Vigée-Le Brun, 1781. What if we told you that just about every painting you’ve seen of Marie-Antoinette was created by a woman? Overlooked for two hundred years, Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun was one of the most celebrated portraitists of the late 1700s. She

Marie Antoinette, the ill-fated queen of France, is remembered for two things: losing her head and uttering the callous phrase, “Let them eat cake.” Though it ...

★ Image resolution: 1579×1967 px. Information about the painting, location, other paintings of the artist. Album: Francois Boucher, #20/306.

Guy Boyer on Instagram: “Madame Grand (1783) d’Elisabeth Louise Vigée-Lebrun au Metropolitan Museum of Art de New York #elisabethlouisevigéelebrun #vigeelebrun…”