Marie Antoinette, Queen, Consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793 – Antique Wall Art
![Marie Antoinette, Queen, Consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793, [no date recorded on caption card] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ae/ae1ac80fe923-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Marie Antoinette, Queen, Consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793 comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Marie Antoinette, Queen, Consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793
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Marie Antoinette, the Austrian-born queen who married the future Louis XVI in 1770, is the subject of this portrait, which the Library of Congress catalogs as a lithograph (the record marks the medium with a question mark) after an engraving by an artist named Leney. Her reign, which began in 1774 when Louis XVI took the throne, grew increasingly unpopular in France amid debt, extravagance and political unrest, and she was executed during the Revolution in 1793. Prints like this one circulated widely in the nineteenth century, when her life was retold as a cautionary tale about monarchy and its fall.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph(?). |
| Notes | Lithograph(?) after engraving by Leney. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: A/P/P Index; BI; Publ.; Shelf. AACR2 check. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,029 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-144599 |
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