1788 Marie-Antoinette by Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun (Versailles)
This 1788 Vigée-Lebrun portrait of Marie-Antoinette creates a
regal, but subdued image keeping with the needs of the propaganda war raging
around her.
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