Description. Marie Antoinette in a Chemise Dress 1783 Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun With the support of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, Vigée Le Brun became one of fourteen women (among 550 artists) admitted to the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture before the Revolution. On her neck, the sovereign wears a medallion with the profile of Louis XVI. The sitter is Marie Antoinette (1755-1793) who was born in Vienna as the Duchess of Austria. She is draped in a floral royal coat and lined with ermine. Her high wig, in the style of the time, is enriched with flowers, including a finely worked rose, held by a ribbon. Marie-Antoinette knew how to surround herself with the most talented artists of the time, such as Félix Lecomte who made her bust in Carrara marble in 1783. Her artistic style is generally considered part of the aftermath of Rococo with elements of an adopted Neoclassical style. Painting portraits of Marie-Antoinette Painting portraits of Marie-Antoinette. We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audience is coming from. In 1788, she was granted patronage by Marie-Antoinette and became her court painter until the monarchy was abolished (Nicholson). The Queen of France is represented in all the dignity of her position. Some of the most famous include: Marie at age 7: Marie age 12: Marie in 1775, a year after she was crowned Queen of France: Marie in 1778. After painting the first major official portrait of Marie-Antoinette in 1778, to everybody’s satisfaction, Vigée Le Brun was regularly asked to portray the Queen. I wanted to put this up now, because it's important background information for the next part of my post on Self Portrait with a Harp. Marie Antoinette with a Rose 1783 Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun A month after Vigée Le Brun was obliged to remove her picture of Marie Antoinette in a chemise dress from the Salon, she installed this new, larger, and more formal portrait of the queen. Critics of the time praised this tour de force, "The sculptor seems to have reserved all the art, all the precision, all the softness of his chisel for the queen's bust, representing her in ceremonial clothing... Grace and nobility cannot be united in a higher degree on a physiognomy. Portrait of marie Antoinette with Rose - 1788 oil on canvas, at Versailles : marie Antoinette and her children at Versailles -1788 The last portrait of thirty that Vigee Le Brun painted of the doomed queen. Vigée-Lebrun portrays Marie-Antoinette wearing a robe a l'Anglaise in 1783 in this, the most well-known, portrait of her. The picture shows marie Therese Charlotte de France, madame Royale, and her brother, Louis, Le Dauphin. The gaulle, or chemise a la reine, was made infamous by Marie Antoinette … The artist reveals the freshness of her youth in the graceful headdress and the light smile on her face. Vigée Le Brun was admitted to the Académie Royale by royal intervention on May 31, 1783. The robe a l'Anglaise supplanted the robe a la Francaise for all but court wear by the time this picture was painted.

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