Miniature of Marie Antoinette
painter
Jean-Baptiste Isabey
(Nancy, 1767 - 1855, Paris)
Dateabout 1786
Place MadeFrance, Europe
MediumOil
Dimensions9.5 x 6.5 x 0.5 cm (3 3/4 x 2 9/16 x 3/16 in.)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberP18s24
Status
Not on viewWeb CommentaryThis portrait miniature depicts Marie Antoinette (1755–1793) as a young woman. Isabella Stewart Gardner was interested in the tragic story of the last queen of France, and she displayed this portrait in the Little Salon, a room in the Palace decorated in the eighteenth-century Rococo style.
Id725498
Last Updated8/9/24
EmbARK ObjectID14288
Previous Number557
Source ID3097
