Marie Antoinette with a Rose
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.A month after Vigée Le Brun was obliged to remove her picture of Marie Antoinette in a chemise dress from the Salon, she installed this new, larger, and more formal portrait of the queen. In an astonishing transformation, she presents the sitter in the same pose and with the same expression while attiring her in the epitome of decorum and taste. The queen wears an elegant lace-trimmed dress.
At the center of the nosegay in both paintings is a pink cabbage rose, her signature flower, at the peak of its bloom.
At the center of the nosegay in both paintings is a pink cabbage rose, her signature flower, at the peak of its bloom.
Artwork Details
- Title: Marie Antoinette with a Rose
- Artist: Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, Paris 1755–1842 Paris)
- Date: 1783
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 46 × 35 in. (116.8 × 88.9 cm)
Frame: 60 1/2 × 46 1/4 in. (153.7 × 117.5 cm) - Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: Lynda and Stewart Resnick
- Curatorial Department: European Paintings