portrait of Maria-Antoinette

Marie Antoinette, baptised Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna (2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793)
born an Archduchess of Austria, was Dauphine of France from 1770 to 1774 and Queen of France and Navarre from 1774 to 1792.
She was the fifteenth and penultimate child of Maria Theresa of Austria and Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor.

After the revolutionaries placed the royal family under house arrest in Paris,
an attempt to flee (the flight to Varennes) had disastrous effects on French popular opinion:
Her husband Louis XVI was deposed and the monarchy abolished on 21 September 1792;
the royal family was subsequently imprisoned at the Temple Prison.
Nine months after her husband's execution, Marie Antoinette was herself tried,
convicted by the Revolutionary Tribunal of treason to the principles of the revolution,
and executed by guillotine on 16 October 1793.
Her death and plots inspired many of those who fought for conservative ideas associated with religion and royal government
specially in Vendee and helped the return of much of these ideas in 19th century Europe following the Congress of Vienna in 1815.

backside "Marie Antoinette"
Upper portrait of a vertical range of three
together with portraits number 304 and 305
probably of French origin

painting: waterbased on an ivory chip
signed
very fine details
preservation: excellent
one of the better portraits in this collection
frame: dark red velvet vertical range of three portraits
a highly decorated suspension eyelet at the top
a "pompom" at the bottom
gold finished decorated ring
frame in superb state
internal dimension ring: vertical 50 mm.
thicknes frame: 10mm
vertical dimension frame: 380 mm




stock number 303