Why it matters
The queen holds a rose in a portrait by her court painter Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, made six years before the outbreak of the French Revolution.
Did you know?
- It was painted in 1783.
- Vigée Le Brun joined the Académie Royale that year.
- It now hangs in the Petit Trianon.
Based on the Wikipedia article Marie Antoinette with a Rose (CC BY-SA 4.0).
