Marie Antoinette, Queen of France
Medium
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Plate: 8 11/16 × 6 1/4 in. (22 × 15.8 cm) Mat: 14 3/16 × 19 1/8 in. (36 × 48.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1956
Accession Number
56.558.59
Tags
PortraitsMarie AntoinetteQueens
About the Artist
Jean-Baptiste Isabey · 1767–1855
Jean-Baptiste Isabey (1767–1855) was a French painter and miniaturist whose extraordinary longevity and adaptability allowed him to serve as the preeminent portraitist of successive French regimes — from the court of Louis XVI through the Revolution, the Napoleonic Empire, the Restoration, and into the July Monarchy — making his career an almost unparalleled chronicle of French political and socia...