Just curious to see which one is your favorite. Mine is this one of the Queen surrounded by the children of France with the empty cradle. Her face looks so regal and delicate at the same time, and although she is stouter, quite beautiful.

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Ah...what a good question!!!

My favorite painting of Marie-Antoinette is this :



Etonnant hein Pim tu t'y attendais pas je pari!

Tres belle!

This is such a difficult question! I can't choose there are so many portraits I love.

This one is my favourite of the moment:
http://www.ladyreading.net/marieantoine ... rie23a.jpg

This one is also high on ma favourite list:
http://www.ladyreading.net/marieantoine ... marie1.jpg

And this one:
http://www.ladyreading.net/marieantoine ... arie22.jpg

I'll stop there or my entire MA digital collection will be listed...and you were asking for ONE answer

No no, you don't have to limit yourself to one answer! Just pick a selection that you like, my tastes change too!

I also love so many pics of Marie Antoinette ! But I definitely fell for this one...

Lovely Pimprenelle! Can you tell me who the painter is?

It is a portrait with a story, dear... It is painted by Kucharsky, who, after Mme Vigée-Lebrun's departure for emigration, became the queen's painter. He first made this picture I also adore :

Painted in 1790 in the Tuileries

Then, he was asked for another portrait. He began his work, but was interrupted by the escape to Montmedy. It is this "unfinished portrait". In the lower side of the painting, you can see a hole. It was made by a revolutionary when they attacked the Tuileries.

My favourite:

http://www.batguano.com/marie81.jpg


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Beautiful one too ! I think Ute Lemper looks a bit like this portrait...

Very Interesting story Pimprenelle! So was Kucharsky the Queen's portrait painter during the Terror?

Ah I cannot resist to show my favorite portrait N°2, just for the visual pleasure:



It is Marie-Antoinette dauphine , by Drouais

Oh how lovely Louis Charles A young M.A. One can see her large beautiful blue eyes, and fine complexion!

Indeed Louis XVI!

And Drouais was a rather realistic painter!
We find almost all the physical characteristics of Marie-Antoinette in this portraits: large eyes, a great face, the lips "Habsbourg", the aquiline nose, and the chin
...And her grace of course!

Ah Chou,we both need to find a girlfriend! I'm teasing of course!