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Miniature from the German School, 1755,
Hofburg, Vienna, 4 x 3,1 cm.
The youngest daughter of the Empress: Maria Antonia Josepha Joanna.
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Miniature from the German School, 1759, Lorrain Museum, Nancy, 4,2 x 5,2 cm.
Maria-Antonia at 4 years old.
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Benevault Pierre, 1759, Schönbrunn castle, Vienna, oil on canvas (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
as official court painter and in 1759 he did some portraits of Marie Therese's children for her Belvedere
Palace. With this work, the painter brought a bit of French style to the
Vienese Court: he painted the two younger sisters in a impersonal atmosphere that didn't like too much to Marie-Therese. The Empress prefered 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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Archduchess Marie-Christine, 1760, Kunsthistorisches
Museum, Vienna, oil on canvas.
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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School of Martin van der Meytens, 1762, Schönbrunn castle, Vienna.
A young Antoinette from a series of miniatures of Maria-Theresa's family.
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Jean-Etienne Liotard, 1762, Ginevra, Musée d'art.
Maria-Antonia at the age of seven years.
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Unknown artist, Hofburg, Innsbruck.
A young Antoinette at about 8 years. This is an allegorical portrait of Maria-Antonia as Minerva (on the
left) and her sister, Maria-Josepha, as Diana.
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Martin van Meytens, 1763, Hofburg, Vienna, oil on canvas,
170 x 190 cm.
The royal family of Austria.
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G. Weikert, 1765, Hofburg, Vienna, oil on
canvas.
The picture shows Marie-Antoinette dancing at Schonbrunn "Il trionfo d' amore" by
Metastasio, performed by Florian Leopold Gassmann in occasion of the wedding of the Emperor Joseph II with Marie of
Bavaria: Gassmann was the ballets' official composer and soon he will be appointed Court's Chapel Master. This painting is attributed to G.Weikert (1745-1799), but a copy of it is kept to Versailles.
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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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Auerbach, 1766, Hofburg, Vienna (details).
Marie-Antoinette at the celebrations fot the Archduchess Marie-Christine's
wedding on 8th April 1766.
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Martin van Meytens the young, 1767-68, Schonbrunn, Vienna, oil on canvas.
The archduchess Marie Antoinette at the age of 12.
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1767
Marie Antoinette, Archduchess of Austria.
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Anonymous painter, 1767, private collection, Paris, 59 x 44 cm.
Marie-Antoinette, her brother and sisters.
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German School, 1768, Castel of Hradsehin,
Prague, 122 x 170 cm.
Marie-Antoinette.
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E.J. Alphen, 1768, Hofburg, Vienna, 6,3 x
8,6 cm.
Marie-Antoinette.
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German School, 1768, private collection,
Gratz, 70 x 100 cm.
Marie-Antoinette.
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German School, 1768, private collection,
Paris, 32 x 40 cm.
Marie-Antoinette.
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F.X. Wagenschoen (1726-1790), 1768, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
Marie-Antoinette playing the spinet.
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Joseph Ducreux, 1769.
Marie-Antoinette at the age of 14.
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Joseph Ducreux, 1769, pastel, Versailles.
Marie-Antoinette de Lorraine (detail)
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Engraving by Fritsch from a painting by
Wagenschoen, 1770.
This portrait was been send from the
Austrian Court to the future Louis XVI: it's the first portrait of
Marie-Antoinette that Louis has ever seen.
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Benjamin Duvivier, 1770, Musée Carnavalet,
Paris, diam. 17 cm.
Marie-Antoinette.
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Charpentier Jean-Baptiste, 1770, Versailles, oil on canvas, 64x52 cm.
Marie-Antoinette, Archduchess of Austria, future Queen of France. This portrait was made after a portrait by
Ducreux.
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Unknown painter, XVIIIth century, Museum of Bordeaux.
Oil on leather.
Portrait of Marie-Antoinette bought by the museum in 1900 after the heritage of Auguste
Poirson.
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Unknown painter of the French School from an original painting of the German
School, 1770, private collection, Castle of the Petit-Ourscamps, Oise, 33 x
42 cm.
Portrait of Marie-Antoinette.
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Modern copy from an unknown painting of the
French School, 1770, private collection, Castle de la Jonchère, Loiret, 19
x 25 cm.
Portrait of Marie-Antoinette.
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The diamond Marie Antoinette Bleu
We know very well Marie Antoinette's strong passion for jewellery, above all for pearls and
diamonds. Her tastes differd from her predecessors, for this reason lots of
the Crown jewellery was modified for
her. When she arrived in France she brought with her this blue-grey diamond, in the form of an
heart, weighing 5,46 carats, mounted on a ring. It belonged to Marie Antoinette in her private
collection, then it wasn't in the royal collection, in fact the Crown jewellery
had only been depositated in 1791 at the Garde Meuble. Just before the execution, Marie Antoinette gave the ring to
Princess
Lubomirska, one of her closest friends. At the Princess death, without a son
as her heir, her huge fortune and jewelry were passed on to her four daughters (three of them were married
to members of the Potocki's family). In 1955, the diamond was shown in Versailles
for the occasion of the exhibition called
"Marie Antoinette, Archduchess, Dauphine and Queen". Finally Christie's sold the ring at
Geneva on Maj 12th, 1983, but it remained
unsold. (Information from Jan Belfour, "Famous diamonds")
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Marie-Antoinette's ear-drops, Smithsonian's National
Museum of Natural History.
These
diamond earrings were given to Marie Antoinette by Louis XVI and are said to
have been taken from her when she was arrested fleeing the French
Revolution.
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Marie-Antoinette's ear-drops, Smithsonian's National
Museum of Natural History.
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Joseph Krantzinger, 1771, Schonbrunn, Vienna.
The Archduchess Maria-Antonia wearing a hunting dress. This painting was
done in
France, then the artist sent it to the Empress Maria-Theresa, in Austria.
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Joseph Krantzinger, 1771, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
Marie-Antoinette
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Duplessis, 1772, private collection, France
Marie-Antoinette on an oil-sketch.
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J.-S. Duplessis, 1773, private collection,
Paris, 55 x 68 cm
Marie-Antoinette.
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Francois-Hubert Drouais, 1773, Chantilly, Musée Condé, oil on canvas.
On September 1772 Drouais, one of Madame du Barry's favourite painters, received the order to make four oval paintings to put in the King's office in the castle of
Choisy. Between these paintings were the portraits of the "Dauphine Marie-Antoinette as
Hebe" (Musée Condé, Chantilly) and the "Countess of Provence as Diana". These two portraits had to take the place of two paintings by Dumont de Romain that
had been put in another place in 1757. The portraits of Marie-Antoinette and the Countess of Provence were exhibited for the first time at the Salon of 1773. The artist's signature "Drouais 1773" is
written on the gold cup that Marie-Antoinette has in her
hand. The contemporary writers weren't in agreement about the likeness of
the portrait and the sitter. Bachaumont in the "Letters" published in 1780 about the Salon of the 1773 said that "M. Drouais has absolutely
failed" and the two portraits "haven't any relief and the clothes don't give any
hint of
reality". In the "Commentaries about the painting" the writer doesn't even want to show us the portrait
"not very well known" of the dauphine and reproaches to Drouais the
lack of likeness of the
sitter. Any way the "Prises of the wood paintings exhibited to the
Salon" were more flattered and they describe the portrait as being the
very likeness of its sitter: "the artist couldn't get a better sitter to paint the young Hebe". At the beginning of the XIXth
century, this painting disappeared but some years later Alexandre Lenoir sold it
at an
auction, so probably he stole the portrait during the revolution. In 1876 the portrait of Maire-Antoinette as Hebe
was bought by the Duc of Aumale. Today at last, it's part of the Condé
Museum collections.
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Francois Hubert Drouais, 1773.
The new Queen of France, Marie-Antoinette.
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A copy of an 18th century portrait showing "Marie-Antoinette à l'âge de quinze
ans"
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François Hubert Drouais, 1774, Versailles.
Portrait of Marie-Antoinette, then Dauphine: manufacture des Gobelins (from the original painting by Drouais).
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Antonio Pencini, 1774, Royal Palace of
Laxenbourg, 40 x 50 cm.
Portrait of Marie-Antoinette.
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Gautier-Dagoty, 1774, Versailles.
Marie-Antoinette playing her harp in her bedroom at Versailles.
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Alexandre Kucharski (?), private collection.
Marie-Antoinette with a tiara in her hair.
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L. L. Périn-Salbreux, Museo Saint-Denis, Reims, oil on canvas.
Marie-Antoinette Dauphine at Versailles, also called "the young queen".
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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
piece to the portrait of Vittorio Amedeo III by Domenico Corvi. A. Trubnikov suggested the present
indentification, as well as the indentification as the Dauphin for the person depicted in its pendant, hung in the English Palace at Peterhof
along with Vigée 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 the influence in it to Joseph Siffred Duplessis and Francois Hubert Drouais; W. Beliawskaja notes its
similarity 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, engraving, Löfstad castle, Sweden.
Queen Marie-Antoinette
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Unknown painter, Hofburg, Innsbruck.
This portrait of the queen Marie-Antoinette could have been made about in 1775. In front of this
painting, in the same room, there's a portrait of Louis XVI.
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Steninge castle, Sweden (?)
Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France.
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