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Aesthetic during the Age of Reason.

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infanta maría antonia fernanda, queen consort of sardinia

jacopo amigoni, c. 1750

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Hôtel de Soubise. Details. (Salon ovale de la princesse).

Paris. France.

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View of the Campidoglio, Rome (detail) , c.1750. Giovanni Paolo Panini

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A miniature of a woman by an unknown artist, circa 1750. [credit: Galerie Bassenge, via Invaluable]

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Sir Godfrey Kneller — Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough. details. 1702

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Marie Antoinette (2006) dir. Sofia Coppola

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“Portrait of an Elegant Lady” (detail) by François-Hubert Drouais (1727-1775).

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“Jupiter, in the Guise of Diana, and Callisto” (1763) (detail) by François Boucher (1703-1770).

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“Portrait of a Woman, Called the Marquise Perrin de Cypierre“ (1753) (detail) by Jean-Marc Nattier (1685-1766).

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“Marie Adélaïde de Savoie, Duchesse de Bourgogne” (1710) (detail) by Pierre Gobert (1662-1744).

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“Edward Smith Stanley, Twelfth Earl of Derby, with his First Wife, Lady Elizabeth Hamilton and their Son, Edward Smith Stanley” (c. 1776) (detail) by Angelica Kauffman (1741-1807).

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Alicia Vikander as Caroline Mathilde in A Royal Affair (2012).

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“Portrait of Lady Almeria Carpenter, Three-Qurter Length, in a White Dress with a Chiffon Shawl, in a Landscape” (c. 1780) (detail) by Richard Cosway (1742-1821). 

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Jason Schwartzman as King Louis XVI and Kirsten Dunst as Marie Antoinette in Marie Antoinette (2006).

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“Portrait of Maria Walpole, Countess Waldergrave, later H.R.H Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh” (1765) (detail) by Francis Cotes (1726-1770).