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Louis XVI
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Joined: Sat Sep 16, 2006 2:02 am Posts: 214 Location: Petit Trianon
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 Favorite Marie Antoinette Portrait...
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.
http://blogsimages.skynet.be/images_v2/ ... 8d353e.jpg
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Thu Jan 18, 2007 4:30 pm |
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Louis-Charles
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Joined: Tue Aug 01, 2006 6:09 pm Posts: 1532 Location: France
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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!
_________________ Quelle grandeur!
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Thu Jan 18, 2007 4:44 pm |
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Louis XVI
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Joined: Sat Sep 16, 2006 2:02 am Posts: 214 Location: Petit Trianon
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Thu Jan 18, 2007 4:47 pm |
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Merteuil
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Joined: Sun Jan 14, 2007 2:31 am Posts: 89 Location: London, UK
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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 
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Thu Jan 18, 2007 6:08 pm |
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Louis XVI
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Joined: Sat Sep 16, 2006 2:02 am Posts: 214 Location: Petit Trianon
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No no, you don't have to limit yourself to one answer!  Just pick a selection that you like, my tastes change too!
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Thu Jan 18, 2007 6:52 pm |
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Pimprenelle
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Joined: Thu Dec 01, 2005 9:54 am Posts: 2040
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I also love so many pics of Marie Antoinette ! But I definitely fell for this one...

_________________ te voir encore me rappelle à la vie
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Thu Jan 18, 2007 7:04 pm |
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Louis XVI
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Joined: Sat Sep 16, 2006 2:02 am Posts: 214 Location: Petit Trianon
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Lovely Pimprenelle!  Can you tell me who the painter is?
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Thu Jan 18, 2007 11:37 pm |
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Pimprenelle
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Joined: Thu Dec 01, 2005 9:54 am Posts: 2040
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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.
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Fri Jan 19, 2007 8:39 am |
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TsmnDs
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Joined: Thu Dec 14, 2006 6:26 pm Posts: 134
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_________________ No sire, it is a revolution.
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Fri Jan 19, 2007 11:40 am |
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Pimprenelle
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Joined: Thu Dec 01, 2005 9:54 am Posts: 2040
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Beautiful one too ! I think Ute Lemper looks a bit like this portrait...
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Fri Jan 19, 2007 11:56 am |
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Louis XVI
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Joined: Sat Sep 16, 2006 2:02 am Posts: 214 Location: Petit Trianon
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Very Interesting story Pimprenelle!  So was Kucharsky the Queen's portrait painter during the Terror?
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Fri Jan 19, 2007 3:21 pm |
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Louis-Charles
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Joined: Tue Aug 01, 2006 6:09 pm Posts: 1532 Location: France
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Ah I cannot resist to show my favorite portrait N°2, just for the visual pleasure:
It is Marie-Antoinette dauphine , by Drouais 
_________________ Quelle grandeur!
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Fri Jan 19, 2007 5:33 pm |
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Louis XVI
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Joined: Sat Sep 16, 2006 2:02 am Posts: 214 Location: Petit Trianon
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Oh how lovely Louis Charles  A young M.A. One can see her large beautiful blue eyes, and fine complexion!
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Fri Jan 19, 2007 5:48 pm |
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Louis-Charles
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Joined: Tue Aug 01, 2006 6:09 pm Posts: 1532 Location: France
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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!
_________________ Quelle grandeur!
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Fri Jan 19, 2007 5:58 pm |
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Louis XVI
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Joined: Sat Sep 16, 2006 2:02 am Posts: 214 Location: Petit Trianon
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Ah Chou,we both need to find a girlfriend!  I'm teasing of course! 
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Fri Jan 19, 2007 6:02 pm |
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