Featured The creme de la creme (and actual jewelry) 18/19th miniature paintings

Hahaaaa that's the spirit! I save mine in a sort of Learning Library file so I can revisit how pretty they are.

Hard to say without knowing for sure the source of the image. The only name I could officially find attached to it was Delpech and he was 15 when she died. There's speculation it was by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun originally. Marie-Antoinette was her patron and she did many portraits of her. There's a similar dress in this portrait, and the head is similar to Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller's portrait of the Queen in her riding dress, which was subsequently copied by Le Brun. Sooo if there was a painting, or something made by Le Brun, it would be contemporary to the Queen. If it was a reimagining of Delpech combining parts he liked from famous paintings (and I've seen that before)...then it would be from after her death.

 

Gotcha, Thank you Mirana!