Marie-Antoinette - Queen of France & Navarre - After Michel Garnier - c1825

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An Antique Lithograph of "Marie-Antoinette " (Queen of France and Navarre ) Lithographed by Ducarme from the original by Michel Garnier Produced by Blaisot, Paris c1825 This item comprises the engraving as described above in good condition. The text below the image is in French This is a genuine antique being over 150 years old - NOT a modern reproduction. FORMAT Overall Size:- 8 " x 10" including the mount. Image Size:- 5" x 7" approx - - - - - - - About the Subject.. Marie Antoinette (baptised Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna; 2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793) Born an Archduchess of Austria, she was Dauphine of France from 1770 to 1774 and Queen of France and Navarre from 1774 to 1792. She was the fifteenth and penultimate child of Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor and Empress Maria Theresa. In April 1770, upon her marriage to Louis-Auguste, Dauphin of France, she became Dauphine of France. She assumed the title Queen of France and of Navarre when her husband ascended the throne as Louis XVI upon the death of his grandfather Louis XV on 10 May 1774. After eight years of marriage, she gave birth to a daughter, Marie-Thérèse Charlotte, the first of her four children. Within the kingdom of France, a growing number of the population eventually came to dislike her, accusing L'Autrichienne, "the Austrian woman", (a nickname given her upon her arrival to France by Louis XV's daughters, Mesdames de France), of being profligate, promiscuous, and of harbouring sympathies for France's enemies, particularly Austria, her country of origin.[3] The Diamond Necklace affair damaged her reputation further. She later became known as Madame Déficit because France's financial crisis was blamed on her lavish spending and her opposition to the social and financial reforms of Turgot and Necker. During the French Revolution, after the government had placed the royal family under house arrest in the Tuileries Palace in October 1789, several events linked to Marie Antoinette, in particular the June 1791 attempt to flee, and her role in the French Revolutionary War, had disastrous effects on French popular opinion: over a year later, on 10 August 1792, the attack on the Tuileries forced the royal family to take refuge at the Assembly. On 13 August, the family was imprisoned in the Temple. On 21 September 1792, Louis XVI was deposed and the monarchy abolished. After a two-day trial begun on 14 October 1793, Marie Antoinette was convicted by the Revolutionary Tribunal of treason to the principles of the revolution, and executed by guillotine on Place de la Révolution on 16 October 1793. ------------------------ About the Artist.... Michel Garnier is a French painter, born in Saint-Cloud in 1753 and died in Paris in 1819. Peu documents survive on the life and work of Michael Garnier, listed painter between 1781 and 1814. Thanks to his father, employed by the Duke of Orleans, Garnier worked for the royal household in its infancy. His earliest known work, dated 1781, is also a portrait of the Duke of Orleans. - - - - - - - - SOME IMPORTANT NOTICES.... 1. Overseas postage rates are available on request. 2. Postage Discount is available on multiple purchases, so why not…. 3. If you still cannot find what you are looking for…..4. I shall be scheduling many more historic images on eBay in the future that may interest you. Thank you for your interest read more

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