Marie Antoinette par Pierre Pasquier

A l'occasion d'une exposition sur les miniatures, le musée Liaunig de Neuhaus nous fait une excellente surprise! Il nous présente une miniature de Marie Antoinette par Pierre Pasquier.

Royal countenances are well represented in the Liaunig collection, not only through portraits of the Habsburgs, Empress Maria Theresia, her husband and daughters Maria Anna and Marie-Antoinette, as well as Empress Elizabeth, but also their political opponents such as King Friedrich II of Prussia and Emperor Napoleon of France.

Many of the French Bourbons are also present with numerous miniscule portrayals of Louis XV and his successors, right up to the last French king, Louis-Philippe from the House of Bourbon-Orleans.    



http://www.museumliaunig.at/en/press/aktuell.html

C'est la première fois que je la vois. Et vous?

Elle est superbe, non? Zoomons un peu sur ses traits délicats...





Encore un peu... On ne s'en lasse pas...

Bonjour,

Pierre Pasquier est un peintre français né en 1731 et mort en 1806. Il s'agit donc ici d'un portrait d'époque. Il figure dans l'étude d'Albert Vualpart et Henri Bourin, Les Portraits de Marie-Antoinette.



S'agissant d'un portrait de 1771 et se référant au manteau d'hermine, il faut considérer qu'il représente Marie-Antoinette Dauphine. Je me permets donc de le placer dans le sujet dévolu à cette catégorie.

Bien à vous

madame antoine

Bonne idée!

Sinon, on peut toujours le mettre dans la partie "par artiste".

On peut comparer cette miniature au célèbre portrait de Marie Antoinette par Ducreux:



https://maria-antonia.forumactif.com/t73-portrait-de-1769


L'attitude, la coiffure et le bijou de tête rappellent le Ducreux. On dirait qu'il a inspiré cette miniature.

Voici une autre version de ce portrait.





Marie Antoinette
French
1773
Pierre Pasquier (French, about 1730–1806)

DIMENSIONS
Height: 2 in.

MEDIUM OR TECHNIQUE
Enamel on copper

Marie Antoinette with a pearl necklace, earrings, and pendant.

Set in gilt-metal mount.
Signed on back Madame la Dauphine par Pasquier 1773.

Provenance
By 1903, Nathaniel von Rothschild (b. 1836 - d. 1905), Vienna [see note 1]; by descent to his nephew, Alphonse de Rothschild (b. 1878 – d. 1942) and his wife, Clarice de Rothschild (b. 1894 – d. 1967), Vienna; 1938, confiscated from Alphonse and Clarice de Rothschild by Nazi forces (no. AR 1225a) [see note 2]; taken to the Kunsthistorisches Museum and stored at the Central Depot, Neue Burg, Vienna; 1941, removed to the monastery of Kremsmünster and subsequently to Alt Aussee; 1945, recovered by Allied forces; about 1947/1950, returned to Clarice de Rothschild, New York [see note 3]; by descent to her daughter, Bettina Looram de Rothschild (b. 1924 - d. 2012); about 1990/1992, given by Bettina Looram de Rothschild to members of her family; 2013, gift of the heirs of Bettina Looram de Rothschild to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 18, 2013)

[1] Nathaniel Rothschild, Notizen über einige meiner Kunstgegenstände (Vienna, 1903), p. 120, cat. no. 297; and Inventar über die in den Nathaniel Freiherr von Rothschild'schen Nachlass gehörigen, in dem Palais in Wien, IV. Bezirk, Theresianumgasse Nr. 14 befindlichen Kunstgegenstände und Einrichtungsstücke (Vienna, 1906), p. 412, no. 234.

[2] With the Anschluss, or annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany in March, 1938, the possessions of Alphonse and Clarice de Rothschild were seized and expropriated almost immediately by Nazi forces. This miniature appears in a Nazi-generated inventory of 1939 as no. AR (Alphonse Rothschild) 1225a: "Emailminiatur, Madame La Dauphine, reich geschnitzt, Buchsrahmen mit Adler und Krone, 1743." Katalog beschlagnahmter Sammlungen, inbesondere der Rothschild-Sammlungen in Wien, Verlags-Nr. 4938, Staatsdruckerei Wien, 1939, Privatarchiv, reproduced in Sophie Lillie, "Was einmal war: Handbuch der enteigneten Kunstsammlungen Wiens" (Vienna, 2003), p. 1043.

[3] Many works of art stored elsewhere by the Nazis were moved to the abandoned salt mines of Alt Aussee in Austria, to be kept safe from wartime bombing. Allied troops recovered the looted artwork at the end of World War II, and established collecting points where the art could be identified for restitution to its rightful owners. In 1947 Clarice de Rothschild visited the salt mines at Alt Aussee, where she was able to identify the crates of works of art from her family’s collection, facilitating its return shortly thereafter.

Credit Line
Gift of the heirs of Bettina Looram de Rothschild
https://www.mfa.org/collections/object/marie-antoinette-585347

madame antoine

Voir aussi le croquis que je viens de poster ici :
https://maria-antonia.forumactif.com/t1616p25-les-saint-aubin#358753