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Marie Antoinette and her Children: An Icon of French Painting | National Gallery of Canada Vigee Le Brun, Queen Marie Antoinette, Queen Of France, French Royalty, The French Revolution, French History, French Revolution, European History, Louis Xvi

In September 1785, when Marie Antoinette’s popularity with the French people was on a dangerous downward slide, Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun was summoned to Versailles. The brilliant young painter had already been commissioned to paint several portraits of the queen, posing her alone in various elegant gowns. Now, however, she was asked to create something different: something that would restore Marie Antoinette’s image as a loving mother and guarantor of dynastic continuity.

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