Marie Antoinette by Joseph Hickel
Marie Antoinette by Joseph Hickel

Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette c1773-4 by Austrian Painter Joseph Hickel (1736 – 1807) of Portraits and Draughtsman of the mid 18th century.

This is a wonderful portrait Marie Antoinette (1755 – 1793) at the age of 18; Archduchess of Austria and last Queen of France.

She is wearing a large pearl headpiece, a matching choker large pearl necklace and an aqua green period dress with lace accents and white ribbons on the front of the dress and along the cuffs of the sleeves.

This is a retouched digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image.

Below information derived from Christies.com

Joseph was born in Vienna, Austria in 1736 and was a student at the Akademie der Bildenden Kunste, Vienna from 1756 to about 1766 where he studied portrait painting.

In 1768 the Empress Maria Theresa (1717 – 1780) commissioned him to paint a series of portraits of the nobility of Italy; where he traveled to the cities of Milan, Parma and Florence.

The following year he became a member of the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, Italy; and in 1772 he was appointed deputy head of the Vienna Gemldegalerie.

In 1776 Joseph then became the Imperial court painter, and from this point forward during the 1780s would become one of the most requested portrait painters in Vienna.

It is believed that during his lifetime Joseph created more than 3000 portraits; that included the Austrian Imperial family, Pope Pius VI, King Ferdinand IV and Queen Maria Carolina of Naples, and many members of the nobility, middle classes, as well as actors at the Hofburg theater.

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