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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.
Marie Antoinette with a Rose, also known as Marie-Antoinette with the Rose (French: Marie-Antoinette dit « à la Rose »), is an oil painting by the French artist Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun. It was painted in 1783, and is in the collection of the Palace of Versailles. As of November 2022, it is hanging in the ante-dining room of the Petit Trianon.
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]
His most famous painting is The Romans in their Decadence (1847), an enormous canvas, almost five meters by eight meters, crowded with scenes of decadence. He was a teacher at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts , and, like Gleyre, he taught a number of famous later painters, including Édouard Manet , Henri Fantin-Latour , and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes .
Pierre-Joseph Redouté (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ ʒozɛf ʁədute], 10 July 1759 – 19 June 1840), was a painter and botanist from the Austrian Netherlands, known for his watercolours of roses, lilies and other flowers at the Château de Malmaison, many of which were published as large coloured stipple engravings. [1]
Joseph Kranzinger (14 February 1731, in Mattsee – 27 March 1775 in Versailles), alternatively Krantzinger, was an Austrian Rococo style pastel painter, best remembered for being commissioned by the Menus-Plaisirs du Roi to paint a portrait of Marie Antoinette in 1769, and for a later painting of the French queen which was misattributed to Jean-Étienne Liotard.
Painting turned toward "fêtes galantes", theater settings and the female nude. Painters from this period include Antoine Watteau , Nicolas Lancret and François Boucher . The Louis XV style of decoration (although already apparent at the end of the last reign) was lighter: pastels and wood panels, smaller rooms, less gilding and fewer brocades ...