Title: Portrait of Queen Marie Antoinette Description: A pastel portrait of Queen Marie Antoinette (November 2, 1755-October 16, 1793) at the age of thirteen by Joseph Ducreux (June 26, 1735-July 24, 1802), a French artist; born in Vienna when it was the capital of the Holy Roman Empire, but today is the capital of Austria; she was the eleventh daughter of the Holy Roman emperor Francis I (December 8, 1708-August 18, 1765) and empress Maria Theresa (May 13, 1717-November 29, 1780); Marie Antoinette became the wife of the King of France, Louis XVI (August 23, 1754-January 21, 1793); a beautiful but unpopular queen, she became one of its most famous victims; her extravagant lifestyle of giving lavish parties and buying expensive gowns and jewelry while many French citizens were starving made her and the monarchy unpopular; when King Louis was overthrown, a Revolutionary Tribunal found her guilty of aiding the enemy and inciting civil war in France; she was jailed and soon afterward beheaded; she gained some measure of sympathy for her courage and dignity while in prison and at her execution; the expression "Let them eat cake" was attributed to her as an example of her alleged indifference to the starving people of France who had no bread to eat, but no record exists that she ever said it; her life and death was dramatized in a 1938 U.S. film, a 1955 French film, and again in a 2006 U.S. film, all titled Marie Antoinette; Category: Marie Antoinette Keywords: Austria, beheadings, executions, films, French queens, French Revolution (1787-1799), gowns, Holy Roman Empire, jewelry, kings, Kings of France, Let them eat cake, living luxuriously, monarchy, parties, queens, queens of France, royalty. Orientation: Portrait Dimensions: 2700 x 3477 (9.39 MPixels) (1.29) Print Size: 22.9 x 29.4 cm; 9.0 x 11.6 inches File Size: 26.88 MB (28,190,886 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000258891c Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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