Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette

c.1781

Jean Pillement, Jean-Baptiste-André Gautier-Dagoty, and Louis Bonvallet

Associated Names
Jean-Baptiste-André Gautier-Dagoty

Printer, French, 1740 - 1786

Louis Bonvallet

Artist, French, 1748 - 1818

Pierre Ranson

Artist, French, 1736 - 1786

Jean-Baptiste Pillement

Artist, French, 1728 - 1808

This print shows two oval portraits side by side, each displaying a bust of a person in profile looking towards the middle. The left portrait features a man with a high forehead, white hair that curls around his ears, a sharp nose, and a soft chin, with his lips set in a slight smile. He is wearing an ornate jacket with ruffles around the neck. The right portrait shows a woman with an ornate hairstyle featuring curls, feathers, pearls, lace, and a cloth veil. She wears a dress with a low neckline trimmed with lace and strands of pearls across her chest. She has a long neck, thin eyebrows, and thin lips. Both portraits are set within blue frames rimmed in gold and surrounding them is a background filled with a garland of pink flowers, green leaves, and blue ribbons. A green wreath is positioned above the two portraits. The background is beige paper.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color etching, wash manner, and stipple engraving with gold leaf and hand coloring with silver paint (tarnished) on silk satin

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 28.5 × 34.6 cm (11 1/4 × 13 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1942.9.1683

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    De Vinck 394

Associated Artworks

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Commemorative Medal on the Occasion of the Marriage of the Dauphin and Marie -Antoinette

Augustin de Saint-Aubin

1770

Album of Portraits of Queen Marie-Antoinette

Various Artists, René Simier

1815

Death of Louis XV

Louis-Simon Lempereur, Nicolas Delaunay

1774


Artwork history & notes

Inscriptions

recto: none; verso: at lower left in graphite in later hand: 9762 - oot [underlined] / [indecipherable] lttt

Markings

none

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q64952857

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