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Marie Antoinette, Louis XVI, and the Archduke Maximilian
Josef Hauzinger Austrian
Not on view
Rare for its depiction of a private meeting of Marie Antoinette with her family, this work was painted several years after her brother Archduke Maximilian of Austria’s 1775 visit. Although he was received warmly by the king and queen, Maximilian did not win friends in France outside the immediate royal family, largely because he expected—against protocol—to be treated as an archduke while traveling incognito as the lower-ranked comte de Burgau.
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