Marie Antoinette And Her Children Painting 2025. Vigee Lebrun Marie And Her Children The result, Vigée Le Brun's Marie Antoinette and her Children (1787), is a masterpiece of portraiture, and is today considered one of France's most important national treasures This picture, painted in 1787 was commissioned by her husband Louis XVI, in the wake of the 'affair of the diamond necklace' whereby the queen was falsely accused of reneging on a promise to pay for the said necklace.
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Additional Viewing Notes: Confronted with the scandal provoked by the "Necklace" affair which was made public in July 1785, Queen Marie-Antoinette commissioned from her official portraitist, Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, a large painting depicting her surrounded by her children The Queen would go on to be her royal patron- at the time, there were few people in France who would have made a more impressive patron.
Marie And Her Children
Additional Viewing Notes: Confronted with the scandal provoked by the "Necklace" affair which was made public in July 1785, Queen Marie-Antoinette commissioned from her official portraitist, Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, a large painting depicting her surrounded by her children "This is an iconic painting," said curator Gwenola Firmin of the Musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon, which lent the work to the exhibition. Marie-Antoinette loves her children, but why isn't that enough to save her?More on http://www.artsleuth.netPhotographic creditsVue du Salon du Louvre en 1785.
Marie and her children by Wertmuller. This picture, painted in 1787 was commissioned by her husband Louis XVI, in the wake of the 'affair of the diamond necklace' whereby the queen was falsely accused of reneging on a promise to pay for the said necklace. Marie-Antoinette's intention was to present an official image of herself as both queen and mother.
A painting of Marie and her children by Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun on display at the. The Queen of France, Marie Antoinette, appointed Vigée Le Brun as her official artist in 1776, only further securing her future Marie Antoinette and Her Children, also known as Marie Antoinette of Lorraine-Habsburg, Queen of France, and Her Children [a] is an oil painting by the French artist Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, painted in 1787, and currently displayed at the Palace of Versailles