The testament and last words of Marie Antoinette
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Plate: 11 5/16 × 7 9/16 in. (28.8 × 19.2 cm) Sheet: 14 5/16 × 9 5/16 in. (36.4 × 23.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Mary Martin, 1938
Accession Number
38.145.440
Tags
Marie Antoinette
About the Artist
Anonymous|Basset|Marie Antoinette, Queen of France
In the vast tapestry of art history, "Anonymous" stands not as a singular individual but as a collective designation for countless unidentified creators whose works have endured across millennia. These artists, spanning prehistoric cave painters to medieval illuminators and folk craftsmen, produced the foundational layers of human visual culture. Prior to the Renaissance, when individual fame emer...