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Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 23:59, 13 April 2008: 1,498 × 1,961 (2.11 MB): Cybershot800i == Beschreibung == {{Information |Description=Portrait of Queen Marie Antoinette of France, 1775 |Source=Musée Antoine Lécuyer, Saint-Quentin, France |Date=1775 |Author=Unknown painter probably made by Gautier Dagoty (1740-1786) |Permission=This image
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Marie Antoinette (/ ˌ æ n t w ə ˈ n ɛ t, ˌ ɒ̃ t-/; [1] French: [maʁi ɑ̃twanɛt] ⓘ; Maria Antonia Josefa Johanna; 2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793) was the last Queen of France prior to the French Revolution and the establishment of the French First Republic.
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Self-Portrait Painting Marie Antoinette is an oil on canvas painting by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, from 1790. It is held in the collection of the Uffizi, in Florence. Le Brun painted the work in Rome after fleeing France to escape the French Revolution in 1789. She conceived the work as a demonstration of her support for the French Queen. [1]
A 2000 book in the young adult the Royal Diaries series is about Marie Antoinette's journey to France as a teenager, Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles (Austria-France, 1769-1771). The two best-known movie portrayals of Marie Antoinette have been in the 1938 film Marie Antoinette , directed by W. S. Van Dyke , in which Norma Shearer ...
A more obscure—and markedly less salacious—story involving Antoinette’s jewelry is that of an exquisite bracelet, made by Jean-Baptiste Mellerio and presented to the queen in 1780.
Marie Antoinette en gaulle (Marie Antoinette in a Chemise Dress), a 1783 portrait of the queen in a "muslin" dress by Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun. Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, the court painter of Queen Marie Antoinette of France, painted Marie Antoinette with a Rose in 1783, six years prior to the outbreak of French Revolution and ten years prior to the eventual beheading of Louis XVI and ...