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Marie Antoinette
A trip to the Detroit Institute of Arts makes everything better! Here’s a photo of my favorite corner, with a chest of drawers (bottom left) that was once in both Madame Elisabeth and Louis XVI’s apartments and an 18th century Italian bust of Louis XVI.
A portrait of Madame Elisabeth, sister of Louis XVI, by (or after) Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun.
Image credit: National Trust Collection
A portrait of Madame Elisabeth by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard. This portrait, given by Madame Elisabeth to one of her ladies, is a copy of a portrait executed by Labille-Guiard in 1787.
© RMN-Grand Palais / Gérard Blot / Franck Raux
Antique hand mirror with a porcelain portrait of Marie Antoinette
source: Ebay
A portrait of the marquise de Lastic, one of Madame Elisabeth’s ladies, by Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun. 1779.
Image: © Jacques – Henri Bayle
Several paintings of Madame Elisabeth, sister of Louis XVI, which will be on display at her estate for the exhibition ‘Madame Elisabeth: the tragic fate of a princess.’
Images ©RMN-Grand Palais
Detail: A portrait of Yolande Martine Gabrielle de Polastron, duchesse de Polignac, by Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun. 1782.
source: socialhistoryofart.com
