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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mirana, post: 9971030, member: 79705&quot;]Hahaaaa that&#039;s the spirit! I save mine in a sort of Learning Library file so I can revisit how pretty they are.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>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&#039;s speculation it was by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89lisabeth_Vig%C3%A9e_Le_Brun" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89lisabeth_Vig%C3%A9e_Le_Brun" rel="nofollow">Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun</a> originally. Marie-Antoinette was her patron and she did many portraits of her. There&#039;s a similar dress <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%C3%89lisabeth_Vig%C3%A9e_Le_Brun_-_Marie-Antoinette_au_livre_-_1785.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%C3%89lisabeth_Vig%C3%A9e_Le_Brun_-_Marie-Antoinette_au_livre_-_1785.jpg" rel="nofollow">in this portrait</a>, and the head is similar to Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller&#039;s portrait of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Ulrik_Wertm%C3%BCller#/media/File:Adolf_Ulrik_Wertm%C3%BCller,_Marie-Antoinette_d'Autriche,_reine_de_France_(1788)_-_002.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Ulrik_Wertm%C3%BCller#/media/File:Adolf_Ulrik_Wertm%C3%BCller,_Marie-Antoinette_d'Autriche,_reine_de_France_(1788)_-_002.jpg" rel="nofollow">Queen in her riding dress</a>, 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&#039;ve seen that before)...then it would be from after her death.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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