On this mean solar day in 1793 , Marie Antoinette was guillotine for treason . Elisabeth - Louise Vigà © eastward - Lebrun painted roughly 30 portraits of Marie Antoinette prior to the queen ’s death ; " Queen Marie - Antoinette and Her Children " was the last . I ’ve dug up a few interesting fact about this significant painting , which is now on display at the Chateau de Versailles .
1 . Elisabeth - Louise Vigà © Es - Lebrun was not just a painter to the queen ; she was the her favorite creative person and a close personal Quaker .
2 . The provenance in the painting is empty , alluding to the recent end of Marie ’s young child , Sophie - BÃ © atrix . She had died while the picture was in unconscious process , shortly before her first birthday . Empty cradle were often used in family paintings to represent deceased shaver .
3 . In 1787 , the fagot was not viewed very favorably by the multitude of France , due to the"necklace affair"the year before . Customarily , child would not be include in official portraits , but Marie trust the portraiture would help her regain popularity by displaying her as a mother and monarch butterfly .
4 . The daughter of a portraitist and a fan painter , Vigà © einsteinium - Lebrun was painting professionally by her former stripling years . Today , she is regarded as the most famous female painter of the eighteenth century .
5 . At one point during the early days of Vigà © e - Lebrun ’s career , her studio was seized because she was practise without a licence .
6 . She was accepted as a member of the Acadà © mie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture on May 31 , 1783 , but there was some opposition to her acceptance , since her married man was an art dealer . The opposition was overruled by an order from the Martin Luther King Jr. himself , Louis XVI , because Marie Antoinette put pressure on her married man on behalf of her friend . Adà © laïde Labille - Guiard , another distaff Gallic cougar , was take over into the Acadà © mie the same day .
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