Madame de Tourvel

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Allegory of Painting, 1765

François Boucher (1703–1770)  

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Maria Theresa, Archduchess of Habsburg by Rosalba Carriera, 1730

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Madame Elisabeth of France by Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, 1782

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Palaces of Augustusburg and Falkenlust in Brühl, Germany

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Couleurs d’automne à Versailles

Photos:  T. Garnier, D. Saulnier

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Château de Versailles, France (by ancient-serpent)

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Divine

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Letting everyone down would be my greatest unhappiness.

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Madame Louise-Elisabeth with her Two-Year old Son, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, 1787. Detail.

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Jean-Marc Nattier, Princess Maria Isabella of Parma (detail)

1758

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Marie Antoinette (2006, Sofia Coppola) ; light 1/2 

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François Boucher - Les Sabots (detail).

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Charlotte Isabella Newman, the drawing of the gold casket is from an album of 1,593 designs, produced for the firm of John Brogden, 1864-1884.

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The Queen’s Hamlet : 

Marie-Antoinette, seeking to flee the Court of Versailles, ordered the construction of her hamlet in 1783. There, she regularly found the charms of country life, surrounded by her lady’s companions.