Portrait of Queen Marie Antoinette

Miniature: ca. 1774; Case: 1809-1810

3.2 cm 4.2 cm

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Hall left Sweden for France in 1766. Within three years, he was officially a painter to King Louis XVI. Hall introduced to French miniature painting a seemingly spontaneous technique employing broad, loose brushstrokes. Marie Antoinette of Lorraine (1755-93) married Louis XVI...

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Laura F. Delano, New York; Walters Art Museum, 1964, by gift.
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