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| Keywords: Johann Georg Weikert 005.jpg en Marie Antoinette dancing during the fête Organized to Celebrate the Marriage of the Emperor Joseph II to Princess Marie-Josèphe of Bavaria 23/24 January 1765 fr détail Marie-Antoinette a 9 ans lorsqu ™elle joue la comédie danse et chante avec ses deux jeunes frères dans un ballet-pantomine « Le Triomphe de l ™Amour » oil canvas cm 183 145 Versailles en One of three versions of this subject attributed for many years to Weikert who became one the most favored Austrian Court painters in the reign of the Empress Maria Theresa Weikert enjoyed a successful career in painting numerous portraits of the Empress and the ten of her sixteen children to survive to adulthood The attribution of the Schonborn painting and the other versions is no longer securely given to this artist however but to an unknown painter working at the Court of Maria Theresia It is the subject however which is of special interest The occasion was a performance written and performed by the Imperial children to celebrate their eldest brother Joseph ™s marriage to Princess Marie-Josèphe of Bavaria on 23 January 1765 The role of cupid was played by the Archduke Maximilian while the Archduke Ferdinand portrayed the Groom and the Archduchess Marie-Antoinette the Bride The young ladies from left to right were Countesses Christine and Thérèse von Clary und Aldringen and Countesses Christine and Pauline von Auersperg The male roles were played by Frederick Landgraf von Furstenberg Count Franz Xavier von Auersperg and Counts Joseph and Wenceslas von Clary und Aldringen The first version of the painting remains in Vienna in the Schoenbrunn Palace; a second version was commissioned from the artist in 1778 by Marie-Antoinette to hang in her dining-room in the Grand Trianon and is now in the Versailles Museum ; this third version commissioned by another of the participants was until recently in an American collection it Il dipinto raffigura i figli minori dell'imperatrice Maria Teresa Ferdinando Carlo e Massimiliano Francesco danzano un balletto con la sorella Maria Antonietta Il titolo della danza era Il Trionfo d'Amore musica da Florian Leopold Gassmann su libretto di Metastasio Lo spettacolo fu recitato a Schonbrunn nel gennaio del 1765 in occasione delle nozze dell'imperatore Giuseppe II con Maria di Baviera Questo dipinto è stato attribuito a Weikert 1745-1799 e una copia è conservata a Versailles http //www rmn fr/Enfance-d-une-archiduchesse 1765 creator Johann Georg Weikert PD-old-100 Other versions Johann Georg Weikert Triumph of Love 1765 portrait paintings Palace Theatre Schönbrunn Marie Antoinette of Austria as a child Paintings in the Musée national du Château de Versailles Paintings of girls Portraits of dancers Female dancers in art Pietro Metastasio 1765 in dance | ||||
