{"id":36621,"date":"2024-01-10T15:22:10","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T14:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefrenchjewelrypost.com\/?post_type=mon-agenda&#038;p=36621"},"modified":"2024-01-21T18:35:54","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T17:35:54","slug":"marie-antoinette-and-her-children-the-painting-by-elisabeth-vigee-le-brun-chateau-de-versailles","status":"publish","type":"mon-agenda","link":"https:\/\/thefrenchjewelrypost.com\/en\/mon-agenda\/marie-antoinette-and-her-children-the-painting-by-elisabeth-vigee-le-brun-chateau-de-versailles\/","title":{"rendered":"Another look at &#8220;Marie-Antoinette and her children&#8221;, the painting by \u00c9lisabeth Vig\u00e9e Le Brun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this painting, it&#8217;s not the depiction of the Queen and her children that interests me. Watching the excellent documentary &#8216;Le Fabuleux Destin d&#8217;\u00c9lisabeth Vig\u00e9e Le Brun, peintre de Marie-Antoinette&#8217; by Jean-Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Thibault and Arnaud Xainte, I wanted to know more about the jewel-strap in the background, almost hidden in the shadows&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>By Sandrine Merle.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Much has been written about the composition of this 1787 painting: the Queen is seated, holding Louis-Charles, the future child of the Temple, on her lap. Beside her are her daughter Marie Th\u00e9r\u00e8se (&#8220;Madame Royale&#8221;) and Louis-Joseph, the dauphin who died two years later. The empty cradle suggests Sophie-B\u00e9atrice&#8217;s recent death at the age of one. In the background, in the half-light, is a jewelry box (a cabinet used to store jewels, among other things) with leaves decorated with the royal coat of arms. It was commissioned by Louis XV for Marie-Antoinette&#8217;s marriage to her grandson, the future Louis XVI.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Putting the necklace affair firmly in the past<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Commissioned from the famous portrait painter Vig\u00e9e Le Brun by the B\u00e2timents du Roi, the painting is intended to rehabilitate the queen, who has been accused of all manner of evil,&#8221; explains Genevi\u00e8ve Haroche-Bouzinac biograph of Vig\u00e9e le Brun. To make us forget her frivolity, her spending and, above all, the famous necklace affair&#8230; Since 1772, the jewelers B\u00f6hmer and Bassange have been in possession of a fabulous necklace weighing over 2,800 carats, made at the time for Madame du Barry. The commissioner, Louis XV, died before delivery, so the jewelers offered it several times, unsuccessfully, to Marie-Antoinette and then to Louis XVI. Marie-Antoinette refused again, suggesting (according to Madame Campan) that the money be used to build a ship&#8230; It was then that Jeanne de la Motte set up a huge deception compromising the Queen in order to steal it. Unmasked, Jeanne de la Motte was branded with a V for &#8220;voleur&#8221; (thief) and sentenced to life imprisonment. The necklace was never found, and although the queen was totally uninvolved in the affair, she remained guilty in the court of public opinion.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Her children, her only riches<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite her passion for jewelry, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefrenchjewelrypost.com\/en\/mon-agenda\/coins-jewelry-sabine-pigalle-beaurains-treasure-citeco\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marie-Antoinette wears only a simple pair of earrings<\/a> in this painting. A way of telling posterity that her children are her only treasures. As in this episode from Roman history: Cornelli, mother of the Gracchi, replies to a friend who has come to show her her jewels, pointing to her children, &#8220;These are my riches and my most beautiful ornaments&#8221;. But unfortunately, &#8220;even in the half-light, this piece of furniture calls to mind the the notorious necklace affair&#8221;, explains Gwenola Firmin (head heritage curator in charge of 18th-century paintings at the Ch\u00e2teau de Versailles). The rehabilitation of a spendthrift queen as a humble, loving mother was ultimately unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, all trace of this jewel-bracelet was lost after the revolutionary sales in 1793. But a visit to Versailles will give you the chance to admire another, in mahogany, made by Marie-Antoinette in 1787 \u2013 the year this painting was completed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the background, in the half-light, is a jewelry box (a cabinet used to store jewels, among other things) with leaves decorated with the royal coat of arms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":36616,"template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-36621","mon-agenda","type-mon-agenda","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Another look at &quot;Marie-Antoinette and her children&quot; painting<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watching the documentary Le Fabuleux Destin d&#039;\u00c9lisabeth Vig\u00e9e Le Brun, I wanted to know more about the jewel-strap of Marie-Antoinette.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" 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