Watercolour on paper
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MarieAntoinette
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1908
paper unique watercolour
Marie-Antoinette
support: 775 × 1333 mm
Presented by the Trustees of the <a href="/search?gid=999999977" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Chantrey Bequest</a> 1908
<p><b>N02263</b> MARIE-ANTOINETTE 1908
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<br/>Inscr. ‘Mary Gow 1908.’ b.l.
<br/>Watercolour mounted on board, 30 1/2×52 1/2 (77×133).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1908.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> R.A., 1908 (1155).</p>
<p>A fancy <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/portrait" title="Glossary definition for 'Portrait'"><span>portrait</span></a> of the Queen of Louis XVI playing with her three children, evidently drawn in an attempt to imitate the eighteenth-century style.</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, I
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