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Marie-Antoinette and her Children

Marie-Antoinette and her Children
French artist Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun was a favorite painter at the court of French king Louis XVI. This portrait of Marie-Antoinette and her Children (1787, Musée du Chateau de Versailles, France) is one of many portraits Vigée-Lebrun made of the queen. The crown prince, Louis-Joseph, who died two years later, stands to his mother’s left.
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Marie-Antoinette; Vigée-Lebrun, (Marie-Louise-) Élisabeth; Louis XVI
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