Marie Antoinette Queen of France

	Gautier-Dagoty, 1775, Versailles, oil on canvas. Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France
	Painter unknown, Musée Anoine-Lecuyer, Saint-Quentin. Marie Antoinette: probably copy from the famous portrait of Antoinette made by Gautier-Dagoty. I don't know anything else about that beautiful portrait.
	Joseph Hauzinger, Hofburg, Innsbruck This painting is from a collection of portraits that Maria Theresia ordered for the biggest and most important room of the royal palace in Innsbruck. Near this portrait of Marie Antoinette are kept all the royal family's portraits: from Maria Theresia and Francis I to Joseph II untill the youngest Empress' son, Maximilian. On every painting there are the portraits of the husbands or wifes who they married.
	Joseph Hauzinger, 1775/77, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. Marie Antoinette, the Archduke Maximilian and Louis XVI. This painting recalls the visit that Maximilian pay to her sister between 1775 and 1777, at the age of 17, at Versailles, in the false name of Prince Burgau: as a matter of fact the young Archduke was criticized by the French court because he was always indifferent and boring.
	Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, 1778, sketch for the official portrait Preparatory drawing for the famous official portrait of Marie Antoinette.
	Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, 1778, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Marie Antoinette, Queen of France. This portrait, was a present from the Queen for her brother Joseph II; then the Queen ordered two other copies: ones for the Russian Empress and the other for her apartments at Versailles and Fontainebelau.
	Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, 1778, Collection of Chateau de Breteuil, France A portrait of the Queen Marie Antoinette.
	Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, oil on canvas, private collection, Paris Once kept by the Orleans family, this portrait is now in a private collection in Paris.
	Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Chateau de Compiègne, oil on canvas. A portrait of the Queen Marie Antoinette.
	Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, oil on canvas. Portrait of Marie Antoinette
	Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Troyes Museum, oil on canvas. Probably copy of the famous portrait of Marie Antoinette made in 1778.
	Joseph S. Duplessis, canvas, 45 x 31 cm, private collection Portrait of Marie Antoinette
	Vestier Antoine, 1778, Private Collection, Paris, oil on canvas. Marie Antoinette in a riding dress with the Temple of Love in the background.
	Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, 1778, Bibliothéque Nationale, Paris. The birth of the Marie Antoinette's first daughter, Marie Therese Charlotte, called Madame Royale, on 19th December 1778. As usual, the Queen give birth in front of the French nobles and this drawing represent the Queen in her Versailles bedroom during this episode.
	Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, 1779, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun made six copies of this portrait: two of these are in France, kept in the States Collection, one for America (but was been burned or stolen when the English kept the capital on 1812), one for Caterine the Great (but today its place is unknow) and the two other remaining portraits have been lost.
	Anne Vallayer-Coster, 1778, location unknown. At the beginning of the XIX century this painting was belived to be a portrait of Marie-Antoinette: in 1970 Marianne Roland Michel, during her studies about Anne Vallayer-Coster, thought that only the bust that appears on the painting is a Marie-Antoinette's one. In fact, during the same years Tardieu made a portrait of Marie-Antoinette as Vesta.
	Marie Antoinette en vestale, oil on canvas, location unknown. Probably made before Madame Royale's birth, this portrait shows the queen dressed up as the roman goddess Vesta.
	Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun Marie-Antoinette of France.
	Anne Vallayer-Coster, 1780, private collection, pastel on paper, 73 x 62 cm. A letter from Anne Vallayer to the Comte d'Angivillier, dated 17 July 1780 states: I have not yet delivered the letter that you had the goodness to give me for the princesse de Chimay because she was not at Versailles when I was there to work on the portrait of the queen, and they advesed me to wait untile her portrait would be entirely finished to beseech her indulgence; I hope that in early part of next week I will be able to make use of it. Painting signed and dated Vallayer 1780. Sold by Sotheby's on December 2004.
	Anonymous painter of the French school, 1781, Versailles, oil on canvas. This painting was made for the birth of the Dauphin. Here are represented from the left to the right: the Duck of Berry, the Duck of Angouleme, the Duck of Chartres, the countess of Artois, the Count of Provence, Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette with the Dauphin and Madame Royale, the Contess of Provence, the Count of Artois and Madame Elisabeth.
	Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, 1783, Versailles. This portrait is alike to the most famous portrait of the Queen of 1786, exhibited in the Salon of the same year.
	Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, 1783, Versailles Marie Antoinette with the rose. Perhaps this is the most famous portrait of the Queen and Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun made many copies of this painting.
	Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun This version of the portrait of Marie Antoinette holding a rose is reappeared lately in a better state of conservation that the version kept in Versailles; it is considered the one belonged to the Queen's grand aumônier, Monseigneur de Fontanges. (Informations and picture from Marie-Antoinette: images d'un destin, by Xavier Salmon, 2005)
	Boquet, National Bibliotheque, Paris, drawing. Marie Antoinette in a theatrical costume.
	Louis-Auguste Brun, 1783, Versailles, oil on canvas. Marie Antoinette at the age of twenty-eight.
	Louis-Auguste Brun, 1783, private collection. Marie Antoinette hunting with Louis XVI in the background.
	Louis-Auguste Brun, 1783, private collection. Marie-Antoinette.
	Louis-Auguste Brun, Musée d'art et d'histoire, Genève. Queen Marie Antoinette in in hunting dress, study for a portrait.
	Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, drawing, private collection. Marie Antoinette on horseback. This drawing belongs to Marquis de Ganay.
	Joseph Boze, 1785, canvas, collection of Monsieur Mame. Marie Antoinette payed 2400 lires for her original portrait made by Boze (half-lenght and round). A copy of an oval portrait, was kept in 1791 in the billiards' room of Thierry de Ville d'Avray's appartament.
	Wilhelm Böttner, 1784, canvas Queen Marie-Antoinette
	Anonymous painter of the XVIIIth century, Louvre, Paris, oil on canvas. Queen Marie Antoinette.
	François-Hubert Drouais, private collection Portrait of Marie Antoinette given by the queen to her confessor in 1781.
Two versions of the same portrait	Engraving by Pierre Alexandre Tardieu after F. Dumont Marie-Antoinette is represented as Vesta, but this portrait was compromised under Terror. This painting is full of allegorical meanings and it refers to Marie-Antoinette's taste for the Ancient. A chalcography of this portrait is kept in the Louvre Museum.
	Queen Marie-Antoinette Löfstad Castle, Sweden
	Alexandre Kucharski, private collection, France, oil on canvas. One of the first portrait of Marie Antoinette made by the artist
	Alexandre Kucharski (?) Probably copy of the previous portrait of the queen.
	François Dumont This miniature is kept in the Françis de Croisset's collection.
	Unkwon artist, Bruckenthal Collection, Sibiu, Romania This strange portrait of Marie-Antoinette is kept in Romania, at the Bruckenthal Collection in Sibiu. Unfortunately I don't have any other information about it.