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Marie Antoinette D'Autriche, reine de France,
Marie Antoinette D'Autriche, reine de France, Vous qui fixez ces traits et du coeur et des yeaux, Ozez en les voyant vous trouver malheureux.
M.da La M.ise de Brehan Pinxt. I. Murphy Sculp.t.
Published for the Proprietor by John & Josiah Boydell Shakespeare Gallert Pall Mall; April 1. 1795.
Mezzotint, 505 x 355mm (20 x 14"), with very large margins. Creasing.
Three-quarter-length seated portrait of Marie Antoinette (1755-1793) in her cell at the Conciergerie, awaiting trial by the Revolutionary Tribunal, turned to the right while facing forward, dressed in a black gown with a long veil over her cap, a medallion of the Dauphin at her neck, her right hand resting on a book in her lap, 'a life of Mary, Queen of Scots,' beside her sits a bust of Louis XVI and a paper bearing parts of his will, with a barred prison window behind her to the upper left. The original oil painting by Anne Flore Millet, marquise de Bréhan (1749-1826) is in the collection of Musée Carnavalet.
CS 8. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 68626]   £390.00  
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