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Benevault Pierre, 1759, canvas, Schonbrunn, Vienna (particular).
Double portrait of the Archduchess Marie Josepha at the age of eight (in the picture) and her sister Marie Antoinette when she was four years old. Benevault went to Vienna in 1752 like official court painter and in 1759 he made some portraits of Marie Therese's children for her Belvedere Palace. With this work, the painter brought a bit of french style at the court of Vienna: he painted the two younger sister in a courtly and impersonal atmosphere that didn't like too much to a busy mother like Marie Therese. The Empress prefered the more realistic portraits. (Unfortunately I'm not able to put the whole portrait of the two sisters, but only the left side, where appear Marie Josepha. If someone has a copy, please send it to me!) |
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Krantzinger, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
A young Antoinette from a series of miniatures of Maria Theresa's family. |
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1760, Archduchess Marie Christine, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Wien
Marie Christine, Marie Antoinette's sister, loved drawing familiar scenes of daily life and for this gouache she was inspired by her contemporary painter Jacobus Houbraken of the Imperial Family: here they were celebrating the Feast of St. Nicholas. Marie Therese pours coffee for her husband while Marie Antoinette shows her favourite doll. Her younger brother Maximilian is eating some cakes under the table; the older brother has been a bad boy, and so has received a birch rod, instead of a toy, which is why he is crying. Marie Christine is on the left is wearing a pink dress. |
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1765, Schonbrunn
Marie Antoinette dancing at Schonbrunn "Il trionfo d' amore" of Metastasio, perform by Florian Leopold Gassmann for the wedding of the Emperor Joseph II with Marie of Bavaria: Gassmann was the official composer of ballets and and soon he will be appointed Court's Chapel Master. |
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1765, Hofburg, Vienna
Marie Antoine and her brothers. |
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Marie Antoinette, 1765, Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna
Francis I drawn by Marie Antoinette at the age of ten. |
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1767-68, painter unknown, Schonbrunn, Vienna.
The archduchess Marie Antoinette at the age of 12. |
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1768, Joseph Krantzinger, Schonbrunn, Wien
The Archduchess Marie Antoine wearing an hunting dress. |
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Joseph Krantzinger, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Wien
Marie Antoinette |
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Charpentier Jean-Baptiste
The Dauphine Marie Antoinette. This portrait was inspired by a portrait made by Ducreux. |
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1767
Marie Antoinette, Archduchess of Austria. |
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1769, Joseph Ducreux
Marie Antoinette at the age of 14. |
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Joseph Ducreux, pastel, Versailles
Marie Antoinette Dauphine of France ( particular ) |
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Francois Hubert Drouais
Marie Antoinette |
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Duplessis, 1772, private collection, France
Marie Antoinette on an oil-sketch |
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Francois Hubert Drouais, 1773
The new queen of France, Marie Antoinette. |
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1774, Gautier-Dagoty, Versailles
Marie Antoinette playing her harp in her bedroom at Versailles |
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Kucharski, private collection
Marie Antoinette with a tiara on her hair. |
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Marie Antoinette. |
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Alizard Jean-Baptiste, Hermitage, S. Petersburg
Before 1914 the painting was erroneously thought to depict Princess Elisabeth of Tuscany and was presented in the Gatchina Palace as a companion to the portrait of Vittorio Amedeo III by Domenico Corvi. A. Trubnikov suggested the present indentification, as well as the indentification as the dauphin of the person depicted in its pendant hung in the English Palace at Peterhof toghter with Vig�e Le Brun's replica of her portrait of Marie Antoinette. A. Vuaflart regards this portrait as a conflation of works by Louis-Michel Vanloo and Jacques Ducret; A. Trubnikov traces in it the influence of Joseph Siffred Duplessis and Francois Hubert Drouais; W. Beliawskaja notes its similariry to the portrait by Jacques Delorge shown in the Salon of 1774. A protest of the painters, dated 11 April 1773, against the permission given to Alizard to copy the portraits of the king and members of the royal family confirms that Alizard's works were really pastiches and copies. The portrait of Marie Antoinette by Alizard was received by the Hermitage Museum in 1920 from the Gatchina Palace. |
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Boizot, L�fstad castle, Sweden
Queen Marie Antoinette (sorry for the bad quality of this picture) |
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Steninge castle, Sweden (?)
Marie Antoinette, queen of France. |
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Elisabeth Vig�e Le Brun
One of the first portrait of Marie Antoinette made by Elisabeth Vig�e Le Brun |
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Marie Antoinette. |
