portraits of Marie Antoinette

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The portraits of Marie Antoinette are iconic late-18th-century royal images that helped shape the public image of the French queen before the Revolution.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf artistic theme
iconographic corpus
visual representations of historical figure
aimedToConvey maternal virtue
political legitimacy
royal dignity
wealth and luxury
artMovement Neoclassicism
Rococo
associatedWith Ancien Régime
French monarchy
Kingdom of France
circulation displayed at Salon exhibitions in Paris
distributed across European courts
reproduced as prints
commissionedBy French royal court
Louis XVI of France
Marie Antoinette
culturalSignificance iconic images of pre-revolutionary French royalty
key sources for visual memory of Marie Antoinette
depict Marie Antoinette
genre court portraiture
royal portraiture
iconography queen as fashionable trendsetter
queen as mother with children
queen in elaborate court dress
queen in pastoral or rustic dress
queen with symbols of monarchy
influencedBy Rococo
surface form: French Rococo aesthetics

Habsburg court portrait traditions
locationOfExamples Kunsthistorisches Museum
surface form: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Louvre Museum
Château de Versailles
surface form: Palace of Versailles

various European and American museum collections
material engraving
miniature on ivory
oil on canvas
pastel
notableArtist Alexander Kucharsky
François-Hubert Drouais
Jean-Baptiste Marie Gautier
surface form: Jean-Baptiste Gautier-Dagoty

Joseph Ducreux NERFINISHED
Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun
surface form: Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun
notableWorkExample Portrait of Marie Antoinette with her Children
surface form: Marie Antoinette and Her Children (1787) by Vigée Le Brun

portraits of Marie Antoinette self-linksurface differs
surface form: Marie Antoinette in a Chemise Dress (1783) by Vigée Le Brun

Marie Antoinette with a Rose (1783) by Vigée Le Brun
timePeriod late 18th century
usedFor court representation
dynastic propaganda
shaping royal public image

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Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun knownFor portraits of Marie Antoinette
portraits of Marie Antoinette notableWorkExample portraits of Marie Antoinette self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Marie Antoinette in a Chemise Dress (1783) by Vigée Le Brun