Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, and the Dauphin

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series Title

Portraits of Marie-Antoinette [1942.9.1665-1698]

Medium

etching and engraving with stipple on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 20.8 × 142 cm (8 3/16 × 55 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Widener Collection

Accession Number

1942.9.1695

Artists / Makers

Louis Charles Ruotte (artist) French, 1754 - c. 1806

Piat Joseph Sauvage (artist after) Flemish, 1744 - 1818

Augustin de Saint-Aubin (artist after) French, 1736 - 1807

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Inscription

in plate, in image, at lower center: La Vertu, les Graces, l'Enfance, / Tout a péri par un forfait nouveau, / Les yeux en pleurs, la timide Espérance, / Leur offre icy ce modeste tombeau.; in plate, below image, at left: Sauvage. pinx.t; in plate, below image, at right: Ruotte Sculp.t; in plate, below image, at center: A Paris, chez L. A. Pitou, Rue de Lully, No. 1 / Prix 1.f