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Marie Antoinette d'Autriche Reine de France et de Navarre

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  • MEDIUM: Aquatint, printed in colors and finished by hand.

    DATE: 1777, c.1900.

  • EDITION SIZE: Plate size 8 5/8 x 6 3/4" (22 x 17 cm)

  • DESCRIPTION: By Jean Francois Janinet After a painting by Jean Baptiste Andre Gautie.<br><br> Half-length portrait of Marie Antoinette Queen of France, shown at the age of twenty on,. slightly turned to the right, wearing blue dress and blue fur-trimmed cloak; in an ornate gilded frame, on a blue background.<br><br> Exact date of printing unknown but certainly feels to be early 20th century. Even with the questionable dating, it is a extremely fine and quite beautiful engraved piece.

  • ADDITIONAL INFO: From the Winfield Robbins of Arlington, Massachusetts "Fraprie Collection" stamp on verso.

  • CONDITION: Very good condition.

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