Academician, member of the St. Luke Academy in Rome and the Academy of St. Petersburg, she was official portraitist of the Queen of France, then, during the Revolution, at various European courts.
Marie-Antoinette of Austria, Queen of France.Exhibited at the 1783 Salon under the title Portrait of the Queen . Louis XVI Collection. Crown Collection. Property of the French State.
Marie Antoinette Joseph Jeanne of Lorraine, Archduchess of Austria, born in 1755, daughter of the German Emperor Francis I and Maria Theresa, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, married the Dauphin, the future Louis XVI, in 1770. She was guillotined in 1793.
Versailles, Musée National du Château et des Trianons (inv. MV 3893, inv. 3063, AC 1948).
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