Queen Marie-Antoinette, c. 1789

Not on View

Medium

color etching and wash manner on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 23.3 × 17.9 cm (9 3/16 × 7 1/16 in.)

sheet: 21 × 27.4 cm (8 1/4 × 10 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Widener Collection

Accession Number

1942.9.2430

Artists / Makers

Pierre-Michel Alix (artist) French, 1762 - 1817

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (artist after) French, 1755 - 1842

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: in plate, in frame surrounding oval portrait: MARIE ANTOINETTE D'AUTRICHE REINE DE FRANCE Née à Vienne / en 1755.; in plate, below oval portrait: Dédié au Roi / Par son très humble et très Respectueux Serviteur Le Vachez; below image, at left: Peint par M.me Le Brun; below image, at right: Gravé par Alex; in plate, below image, at center: A Paris chez Le Vachez sous les Colonnades du Palais Royal N.o 258. verso: at lower rightin graphite in later hand: K291 [circled] / Fr 36 / 271

Marks and Labels

recto: none; verso: National Gallery / Widener

Exhibition History

2003: Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004, no. 81, as Queen Marie-Antoinette by Pierre-Michel Alix after Élisabeth Vigée-LeBrun.

Bibliography

2003: Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004: no. 81.