Marie Antoinette par Marie Claudine Lezay-Marnesia

Une Marie Antoinette voilée par Marie Claudine Lezay-Marnesia:








Marie Claudine Lezay-Marnesia (née de Nettancourt-Vaubecourt) (French, 1746-1794)

FOOTNOTES
The Marchioness of Lezay-Marnesia was a pupil of Augustin. She was an amateur painter in miniature and oil. She married in 1766, Claude François Adrien, Marquis de Lezay-Marnesia (1735-1800), Statesman and poet. As a member of the aristocracy she would have supported the fallen royalty Louis XIV and Marie Antoinette. She died in London, in 1794, presumably having fled France after the death of the King and Queen on the guillotine. It is not possible to ascertain whether it would have been possible for the artist to have painted the Queen whilst she was imprisoned in the Temple fortress (as suggested on the reverse of the present lot). However, she has sensitively depicted the fallen woman, stripped of her finery, but able to retain her diginity in the face of death.
http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/12068/lot/223/

Nous noterons que nous avons déjà des représentations du même auteur dans notre sujet sur les Allégories.
https://maria-antonia.forumactif.com/t1158p60-gravures-allegoriques

L'une de ces gravures existant en meilleure qualité et en couleurs, je me permets de la reposter.


Titre :  Marie Antoinette d'Autriche reine de France. .. : [estampe] / m.ise de Lezay Marnesia pinx. ; L. Legoux... sculp. 
Auteur :  Legoux, Louis (17..-1... ; graveur). Graveur 
Auteur :  Lezay-Marnésia de Nettancourt, Marie Claudine de (17..-1793). Dessinateur du modèle 
Éditeur :  [s.n.] (London) 
Date d'édition :  1793 
Format :  1 est. : pointillé, col. ; 15,5 x 13 cm (élt d'impr.) 
Format :  image/jpeg 
Relation :  Appartient à : [Recueil. Collection de Vinck. Un siècle d'histoire de France par l'estampe, 1770-1870. Vol. 4 (pièces 488-708), Ancien Régime et Révolution] 
Provenance :  Bibliothèque nationale de France 

Je profite du présent message pour ajouter quelques éléments de biographie sur l'auteur.

• The Marchioness of Lezay-Marnesia was a pupil of Augustin. She was an amateur painter in miniature and oil. She married in 1766, Claude François Adrien, Marquis de Lezay-Marnesia (1735-1800), Statesman and poet. As a member of the aristocracy she would have supported the fallen royalty Louis XIV and Marie Antoinette. She died in London, in 1794, presumably having fled France after the death of the King and Queen on the guillotine. It is not possible to ascertain whether it would have been possible for the artist to have painted the Queen whilst she was imprisoned in the Temple fortress (as suggested on the reverse of the present lot). However, she has sensitively depicted the fallen woman, stripped of her finery, but able to retain her diginity in the face of death.
  

Nous pourrons également nous interroger sur la vraisemblance de la note inscrite au revers du médaillon.

Marie Antoinette (1755-1793), Queen of France (1774-1793), profile to the left, wearing striped scarf about her neck and veil. 
en grisaille, gilt-metal frame, inscribed on reverse Painted/ by/ La Baronne/ Lezay de Marnesia/ 1793/ Marie Antoinette sat for/ this in the Temple. 
Circular, 70mm. (2 3/4ins.) diam.
http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/12068/lot/223/


Bien à vous

madame antoine