Marie-Antoinette, after 1783

Provenance

Comte Charles de Damas. Comte Arthur de Vogüé. Saint collection. (Wildenstein & Co., Inc., Paris and New York); (Reinhardt Galleries, New York); William R. Timken [1866-1949], New York, by 1928;[1] by inheritance to his widow, Lillian Guyer Timken [1881-1959], New York; bequest 1960 to NGA.

Exhibition History

1928

Loan Exhibition of Paintings from Memling, Holbein and Titian to Renoir and Picasso, Reinhardt Galleries, New York, 1928, no. 17, repro., as by Marie Elisabeth Vigee Lebrun.

1955

Marie-Antoinette, grchiduchesse, dauphine et reine. (Exh. cat. Château de Versailles.) Paris, 1955: 40, under no. 59.

1967

Loan for display with permanent collection, Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, 1967-1971.

2008

Marie-Antoinette, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 2008, no. 228, repro., as Marie-Antoinette en chemise ou en gaulle.

2016

Marie Antoinette, a Queen at Versailles, Mori Arts Center Gallery, Tokyo, 2016-2017.

Bibliography

1928

“New York.” Pantheon 4, no. 4 (Apr. 1928): 218, 219, repro.

1955

Marie-Antoinette, archduchesse, dauphine et reine. Exh. cat., Chateau de Versailles. Paris, 1955: 40, under no. 59.

1965

Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 137.

1967

Bischoff, Ilse. “Vigée-Lebrun and the Women of the French Court.” Antiques 92, no. 5 (Nov. 1967): 710, 709, fig. 7.

1968

Garland, Madge. “Rose Bertin: Minister of Fashion.” Apollo 87, no. 71 (Jan. 1968): 43, fig. 6.

1968

National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 124, repro.

1975

European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 366, repro.

1981

Bernier, Olivier. The Eighteenth-Century Woman. Garden City, New York, 1981: 139, repro.

1984

Ribeiro, Aileen. Dress in Eighteenth-Century Europe 1715 – 1789. London, 1984: 153, fig. 96.

1985

European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 425, repro.

1988

Ribeiro, Aileen. Fashion in the French Revolution. London, 1988:33, repro.

1992

Gutwirth, Madelyn. The Twilight of the Goddesses: Women and Representation in the French Revolutionary Era. New Brunswick, N.J., 1992: 147, fig. 22.

1995

Cox, James A. “Asylum for a Queen.” Colonial Williamsburg 18, no. 1 (Autumn 1995): opp. 39, repro.

1995

Ribeiro, Aileen. The Art of Dress: Fashion in England and France 1750 to 1820. New Haven and London, 1995: 71, fig. 74.

2008

Salmon, Xavier. “Si Marie-Antoinette nous était contée . . . parti pris d’une exposition.” L’Estampille / L’Objet d’Art 433 (March 2008): 36.

2009

Conisbee, Philip, et al. French Paintings of the Fifteenth through the Eighteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2009: no. 95, 449-454, color repro.

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