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J.GROH(*1855) after Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun: Marie Antoinette, Etching

Jakob Groh (1855 Rumburg/Böhmen - 1917 Wien) after Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun: Archduchess Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, 19th century, Etching Technique: Etching on paper Size: 25 x 18 3/4 in, Plate: 23 3/4 x 17 1/2 in Inscription: Below the image inscribed in the plate and signed: "Mde. LEBRUN F.", "MIT KAISERLICHER SUBVENTION.", J. GROH SC./DRUCK v. L. PISANI" Condition: Margins somewhat wavy and with traces of old mounting, somewhat browned and stained, corners and edges bumped and especially with some creases at the top and corners. Smaller tears at the upper centre and left margin, as well as at the lower right margin and at the left margin above the centre. Description: The etching follows a painting by the French painter Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, which shows Marie Antoinette in 1778, eight years after her marriage to the French King Louis XVI, in a splendid robe and a high piled-up coiffure with feather decoration. The painting is now in the Picture Gallery of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. There it will also have been seen by Jakob Groh, whose 19th-century version of the composition is less concerned with depicting the pompous décor of the room and the lavish drapery of the dress than with tracing the delicate features of the monarch and the delicacy of the artfully draped lace. Keywords: Romanticism, Figure, Fashion, Portraits, Austria, Print, Monarch, Queen, France, French Revolution, Woman, Hairstyle, Feather, Lace, Austria, Dress, Fashion, Fabric