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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
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.
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 ...
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. [1] Its dimensions are 275 by 216.5 cm (108.3 by 85.2 in). [2]
A 300-carat necklace, whose diamonds have been linked to a scandal involving the last French queen Marie Antoinette, sold Wednesday for nearly $5 million at a Sotheby's auction in Geneva.
If you are a fan of the tragic queen Marie Antoinette you’ve probably heard of the Affair of the Diamond Necklace, an 18th-century catfishing mishap that’s probably the most memorable fiction ...
A mysterious 18th century necklace made from around 500 diamonds, some of which are believed to have been taken from a piece that contributed to French Queen Marie Antoinette's demise, will go on ...