    
Title: Mademoiselle Olivia Description: A portrait of Mademoiselle Olivia who unknowingly played the part of Queen Marie Antoinette (November 2, 1755-October 16, 1793), queen of France, when Olivia received French Cardinal Rohan (Louis-Rene Edouard; September 25, 1734-February 16, 1803) in the Petit Trianon garden at Versailles, Paris, France, in an episode involving "the Affair of the Necklace;" Madame de la Motte (Jeanne de Valois; Jeanne de Saint-Remy-de Luz; July 22, 1756-August 23, 1791), a French noblewoman and adventuress, had assured Cardinal Rohan that the queen wished to buy a necklace of 540 diamonds through his intermediary; no one else could afford to buy the necklace but King Louis XVI (August 23, 1754-January 21, 1793), wanted to buy it for his wife to celebrate the birth of their daughter Marie Therese Charlotte (December 19, 1778-October 19, 1851); she wisely said no and that he should instead spend the money building up the French navy; gossips accused the queen of taking part in a crime to defraud the crown jewelers Bohmer and Bassenge of the cost of the very expensive multi-tiered necklace; Madame de la Motte's husband fled to England to auction some of the diamonds; the affair was one of the events that led to the French people becoming disillusioned with the extravagant monarchy which, among other causes, led to the French Revolution (1787-1799); Category: Marie Antoinette Keywords: Affair of the necklace, France, French kings, French queens, French Revolution (1787-1799), jewelry, monarchy, necklaces, queens, queens of France. Orientation: Portrait Dimensions: 1500 x 1651 (2.48 MPixels) (1.10) Print Size: 12.7 x 14.0 cm; 5.0 x 5.5 inches File Size: 7.12 MB (7,461,352 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000259004 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection |
