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Beautiful Miniature Painting Of French Royal Queen Marie Antoinette of France At The Hameau de la Reine Versailles After François Dumont.
Set in a fabulous Regency photograph gilt frame with lift out back support.
Impress your clients & guests with this notable French Queen portrait to display on your office or home desk or table.
Painted in the style of after François Dumont.
Unsigned.
Circa early 21st century.
Origin from France.
Title "Queen of France Marie Antoinette At The Queens Hamlet".
Subject portrait depicting the notable former French Queen Marie Antoinette, she is sitting down in her private writing area at the Hameau de la Reine the Queens Hamlet in Versailles, she is holding a quill writing an important letter, she is dressed in a fine light purple with golden highlights frilly dress.
Medium watercolour on card.
Frame is cute small easy display size being 19.5 cm wide and 26 cm high.
Set in the original traditional gilt frame which enhances this work of art.
Marie Antoinette (/ˌæntwəˈnɛt, ˌɒ̃t-/;[1] French: [maʁi ɑ̃twanɛt] ⓘ; Maria Antonia Josefa Johanna; 2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793) was the last Queen of France before the French Revolution and the establishment of the French First Republic. She was the wife of Louis XVI. Born Archduchess Maria Antonia of Austria, she was the penultimate child and youngest daughter of Empress Maria Theresa and Emperor Francis I. She married Louis Auguste, Dauphin of France, in May 1770 at age 14, becoming the Dauphine of France. On 10 May 1774, her husband ascended the throne as Louis XVI, and she became queen.
As queen, Marie Antoinette became increasingly a target of criticism by opponents of the domestic and foreign policies of Louis XVI and those opposed to the monarchy in general. The French libelles accused her of being profligate, promiscuous, having illegitimate children, and harboring sympathies for France's perceived enemies, including her native Austria. She was falsely accused of defrauding the Crown's jewelers in the Affair of the Diamond Necklace, but the accusations damaged her reputation further. During the French Revolution, she became known as Madame Déficit because the country's financial crisis was blamed on her lavish spending and her opposition to social and financial reforms proposed by Anne Robert Jacques Turgot and Jacques Necker.
Several events were linked to Marie Antoinette during the Revolution after the government placed the royal family under house arrest in the Tuileries Palace in October 1789. The June 1791 attempted flight to Varennes and her role in the War of the First Coalition were immensely damaging to her image among French citizens. On 10 August 1792, the attack on the Tuileries forced the royal family to take refuge at the Legislative Assembly, and they were imprisoned in the Temple Prison on 13 August 1792. On 21 September 1792, France was declared a republic and the monarchy was abolished. Louis XVI was executed by guillotine on 21 January 1793. Marie Antoinette's trial began on 14 October 1793; two days later, she was convicted by the Revolutionary Tribunal of high treason and executed by guillotine on 16 October 1793 at the Place de la Révolution.
François Dumont (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swa dymɔ̃]; 7 January 1751 – 27 August 1831) was a French painter of portrait miniatures. Dumont was born at Lunéville (Meurthe), and was left an orphan when young, with five brothers and sisters to support. He was for a while a student under Jean Girardet, and then, on. the advice of a Lunville Academician, Madame Coster, set up a studio for himself. In 1784 he journeyed to Rome, returning after four years careful study, and in 1788 was accepted as an Academician and granted an apartment in the Louvre. He married Marie-Nicole, the daughter of Antoine Vestier, the miniature painter, and had two sons, Aristide and Bias, both of whom became painters.
Dumont was one of the three greatest miniature painters of France, painting portraits of Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Louis XVIII and Charles X, and of almost all the important persons of his day. His own portrait was engraved both by Francis Audouin and by Jean-Charles Tardieu.
He resided most of his life in Paris, where he died on 27 August 1831. A younger brother, Tony Dumont, was also a miniature painter, a pupil of his brother, a frequent exhibitor and the recipient of a medal from the Academy in 1810. Each artist signed with the surname only, and there is some controversy concerning the attribution to each artist of his own work. Tony was an expert violinist and delighted in painting portraits of persons who were playing upon the violin.
Many of Dumont's finest paintings came into the collection of J. P. Morgan, but others are in the Louvre, presented by the heir of Bias Dumont. The work of both painters is distinguished by breadth, precision and a charming scheme of coloring, and the unfinished works of the elder brother are amongst some of the most beautiful miniatures ever produced.
Provenance private southern estate & Cheshire Antiques Consultant LTD.
With hanging thread on the back ready for immediate home display.
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Condition report.
Offered in fine used condition.
The front painting surface is in very good order, the frame has general signs of wear, scuffs, scratches, dust in places commensurate with usage & age.
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Dimensions in centimetres of the frame

High (26 cm)
Width (19.5 cm)
Length depth thickness of frame (1.5 cm)

• Period: Early 21st century
• • Price: £3,750.00
  • €4,375 Euro
  • $4,977 US Dollar
• Location: London
• • Dimensions: H: 26cm (10.24in)
  • W: 19.5cm (7.68in)
  • D: 1.5cm (0.59in)