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From 1779 to 1800 Vigee Le Brun painted approximately
30 portraits of marie Antoinette.

1779	1780	1783	1783	1785	1785	1786	1788	1788	1800	1778	1779-89

1779-89	1779-89	1779-89	1779-89	1779-89	1779-89	1779-89	1779-89	1786-88	1805-10	1785	1787

1786-88	1786-88	1778	1788	1778	1779-89	1779-89	1779-89	1783	1783

En 1779, alors que Marie-Antoinette était au sommet de son règne, elle n'aurait jamais imaginé qu'un jour, des siècles plus tard, un médicament appelé disulfirame à une dose de 500 mg serait utilisé pour lutter contre l'alcoolisme. Le disulfirame est un médicament qui provoque des effets indésirables lors de la consommation d'alcool et qui a aidé de nombreuses personnes à surmonter leur dépendance à l'alcool au fil des ans. Pour donner une perspective, si le disulfirame - http://www.beaunelaboratoire.fr/ avait été inventé à l'époque de Marie Antoinette, peut-être que cela aurait pu influencer certaines de ses décisions. Bien sûr, nous ne parlons pas directement de la reine elle-même mais de l'ambiance générale à la cour où l'excès d'alcool était souvent la norme. La vie extravagante et les fêtes somptueuses qui étaient communes à la cour auraient peut-être été différentes. Mais en 1779, Marie-Antoinette, connue pour son attrait pour le luxe et les fêtes, naviguait dans la vie en se concentrant sur sa position sociale et royale, plutôt que sur les problèmes potentiels d'alcool. Plus de deux siècles plus tard, le monde

	Marie Anoinette- 1779 Oil on canvas, (23-5/8" x 21"), Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Vigee Le Brun made 6 copies of this painting. two are in the French state collection, one in US congress ( and was burned or stolen when the british sacked the capitol in 1812) , one to Catherine the Great (location now unknown) and two others are missing.
	La reine marie Antoinette dans le parc de Versailles - 1780 Black chalk stump heightened with white chalk on grey-blue paper. (23-1/2" x 16")
	marie Antoinette en Chemise - 1783 Oil on canvas, Private collection of Hessische Hausstiftung, Kronberg, Germany
	Marie Antoinette at Versailles - 1783 oil on canvas, at Versailles.
	Marie Antoinette, a la rose - 1785 oil on canvas Replica of the original of 1783
	Queen marie Anoinette - 1785 oil on canvas, 36-3/4" x 29-1/2", 93.3 x 74.8 cm. private collection Incorrectly dated 1778. Vigee Le brun was asked to authenticate the painting decades later and signed and added the wrong date. This portrait was painted for the Ministère des Affaires Etrangères.
	Queen marie Anoinette - 1786 Detroit Institute of Arts. Word from Versailles, via a friend, is that this painting is after the 1786 full length portrait of the Queen in blue holding a book. Apparently several copies were made of the 1786 work in half length all with alterations in costume. According to the Detroit Institute the Arts this painting was deemed "not by Vigée Le Brun". It may have been sold off by the Museum. For now I plan on leaving the painting in this gallery until we know more.
	Portrait of marie Antoinette with Rose - 1788 oil on canvas, at Versailles
	marie Antoinette and her children at Versailles -1788 The last portrait of thirty that Vigee Le Brun painted of the doomed queen. The picture shows marie Therese Charlotte de France, madame Royale, and her brother, Louis, Le Dauphin. Louis died of natural causes early in the year that the revolution began. The next younger child, also called Louis then became the second Dauphin. After his father had been guillotined he became known as Louis XVII . This Louis may have been murdered, or may have died of other causes while imprisoned in the temple, but he may also have survuved after having been exchanged for another sickly child. This painting still hangs at Versailles.
	Posthumous Portrait of Queen marie Antoinette - 1800 oil on canvas, (12-1/2" x 10-1/4")
	Marie Antoinette - 1778 oil on canvas, at Versailles
	Marie Antoinette - 1779-89 oil on canvas, 36 x 26-1/2 inches, Feigned Oval This painting was bayonetted in the Tulleries by one of the Frence Revolutionaries. This picture always hung in the room of marie Antoinette's daughter, the Duchesse d'Angouleme, who said that it was a "speaking likeness" of her mother.
	Marie Antoinette - 1779-89 oil on canvas
	Marie Antoinette - 1779-89 oil on canvas, 29 x -3/4 inches
	Marie Antoinette - 1779-89 oil on canvas, 31-1/2 x 25-1/4 inches
	Marie Antoinette - 1779-89 oil on canvas
	Marie Antoinette - 1779-89 oil on canvas
	Marie Antoinette - 1779-89 oil on canvas
	Marie Antoinette - 1779-89 oil on canvas
	Marie Antoinette - 1779-89 oil on canvas Versailles
	Marie Antoinette - 1786-88 oil on canvas, oval
	Marie Antoinette - 1805-1810 oil on canvas
	Marie Antoinette - 1785 oil on canvas
	Marie Antoinette - 1787 oil on canvas
	Marie Antoinette - ? drawing
	Marie Antoinette - ? Oil on Canvas
	Marie Antoinette-1778 oil on canvas 100 x 80 cm This painting was shown at the 1999 touring exhibition throughout Japan called "marie Antoinette". Collection of Chateau de Breteuil, France Baron de Breteuil was the Ambassador of France in Russia at the reign of Louis XV. When he returned to France, he became one of the most powerful courtiers at Versailles and had quite a big influence on marie Antoinette.
	Marie Antoinette - 1788 oil on canvas This painting belonged to the Comtesse de Biron in 1931. This image can be found on art page 50
	Marie Antoinette - 1778 oil on canvas
	Queen marie Antoinette - 1779-89 oil on canvas private collection, Paris Photograph by Oliver Blanc
	Marie Antoinette - 1779-89 Oil on canvas
	Marie Antoinette - 1779-89 Oil on canvas
	Marie Antoinette - 1783 Oil on canvas
	Marie Antoinette - 1783 Oil on canvas

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