1787 – Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Madame Adélaïde
A complex portrait of Louis XV’s daughter Marie-Adélaïde clinging to the old regime of France through fashion and decor just before the revolution.
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1785 – Marie-Victoire Lemoine, Portrait of a Youth in an Embroidered Vest
The young man in this portrait, dressed in formal French aristocratic style, represents the final flourish (or last gasp?) of the ancien régime in the last years before the French Revolution.
1783 – Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Marie Antoinette with a Rose
Court painter Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun depicts the extremely fashionable Queen Marie Antoinette wearing late 18th-century French aristocratic costume (a robe à la française).
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