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| Keywords: Queen Marie Antoinette of France and two of her Children Walking in The Park of Trianon - Nationalmuseum - 18035.tif Drottning Marie Antoinette information field Creator Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller Queen Marie Antoinette of France and two of her Children Walking in The Park of Trianon Adolf Fredrik Wertmüller was commissioned by King Gustav III to paint this portrait of Marie Antoinette and two of her children The painting was displayed at the Salon in Paris in 1785 four years before the French Revolution Wertmüller ™s autobiography explains how the portrait came about I travelled ¦ to Versailles and from there to Petit Trianon where she spent her summers That is where I painted portraits of her and the Princess who was six years old at the time The Queen welcomed me with the greatest of kindness and distinction and gave the order that I should paint His Highness The Dauphin at La Muette the residence of the French Crown Prince while I was here ¦ I then headed back to Paris and painted a large canvas of natural size and the full length of the persons Wertmüller ordered two mannequins for his studio in Paris “ one for the Dauphin ™s portrait and one for the Princess It was common to lend the portraitist the clothing that you wanted to be depicted in It is therefore assumed that the costumes in which the mannequins were dressed actually belonged to the Royal children Wertmüller also ordered a special coiffure from the Queen ™s wigmaker Monsieur Léonard and he is likely to have had access to the robe à la turque Turkish dress that Marie Antoinette is wearing in the portrait Wertmüller portrays the Queen in an environment where she spent much of her time the gardens surrounding her palace Petit Trianon near Versailles It is the Queen ™s role as a mother that is highlighted in the portrait in the spirit of Rousseau This is a conscious choice part of a strategy to change the official image of Marie Antoinette from a frivolous foreigner who loved life ™s luxuries to the mother of all France Princess Marie-Thérèse Charlotte has dropped a rose on the ground Perhaps she pricked herself on a thorn The dress does have small flecks of blood on it The Dauphin is holding tightly onto his mother ™s dress Marie Antoinette was 30 years old when the portrait was painted Louis-Joseph was four He died three years later of tuberculosis Marie-Thérèse Charlotte was the only member of the family to survive the Revolution Adolf Fredrik Wertmüller mÃ¥lade det här porträttet av Marie Antoinette och tvÃ¥ av hennes barn pÃ¥ beställning av Gustav III MÃ¥lningen ställdes ut pÃ¥ Salongen i Paris 1785 fyra Ã¥r innan den franska revolutionen bröt ut I Wertmüllers självbiografi kan man läsa hur arbetet med porträttet gick till Jag reste ¦ till Versailles och därifrÃ¥n til lilla Trianon hvarest hon vistades alla somrar Där mÃ¥lade jag hennes och Princessans portraiter som dÃ¥ var 6 Ã¥r gammal; drottningen emottog mig med den allra största godhet och distinction gaf order at jag skulle fÃ¥ mÃ¥la hans k höghet le Daphin pÃ¥ la Muette den franske kronprinsens residens hvarest jag var ¦ Jag styrde sedan tillbaka till Paris och mÃ¥lade en stor tafla af naturlig storlek och personernas fulla längd Till sin ateljé i Paris beställde Wertmüller tvÃ¥ provdockor “ en för kronprinsens porträtt och en för prinsessans Det var vanligt att man lÃ¥nade ut kläderna man ville bli avbildad i till porträttkonstnären Man antar därför att dockorna kläddes i dräkter som var kungabarnens egna Wertmüller beställde även en särskild hÃ¥ruppsättning av drottningens perukmakare Monsieur Léonard Han hade förmodligen även tillgÃ¥ng till den robe a la turque turkiska klän¬ning som Marie Antoinette bär i porträttet Wertmüller framställer drottningen i en miljö där hon tillbringade mycket tid i parken som omgav hennes slott Petit Trianon vid Versailles Det är drottningens roll som mor som lyfts fram i porträttet helt i Rousseaus anda Det är ett medvetet val en del i strategin att förvandla den officiella bilden av Marie-Antoinette frÃ¥n lyxkonsumerande livsnjutande utlänning till hela Frankrikes moder Prinsessan Marie-Thérèse Charlotte har tappat en ros pÃ¥ marken Kanske släppte hon den för hon stack sig pÃ¥ den Klänningen har smÃ¥ blodfläckar Kronprinsen le Dauphin hÃ¥ller hÃ¥rt i mammas klänning Marie-Antoinette var 30 Ã¥r gammal när porträttet mÃ¥lades Louis-Joseph var fyra Ã¥r Han dog tre Ã¥r senare i tuberkulos Marie-Antoinette giljotinerades i samband med den franska revolutionen Ã¥r 1793 Marie-Thérèse Charlotte var den enda i familjen som överlevde revolutionen header Adolf Fredrik Wertmüller was commissioned by King Gustav III to paint this portrait of Marie Antoinette and two of her children The painting was displayed at the Salon in Paris in 1785 four years before the French Revolution Wertmüller ™s autobiography explains how the portrait came about I travelled ¦ to Versailles and from there to Petit Trianon where she spent her summers That is where I painted portraits of her and the Princess who was six years old at the time The Queen welcomed me with the greatest of kindness and distinction and gave the order that I should paint His Highness The Dauphin at La Muette the residence of the French Crown Prince while I was here ¦ I then headed back to Paris and painted a large canvas of natural size and the full length of the persons Wertmüller ordered two mannequins for his studio in Paris “ one for the Dauphin ™s portrait and one for the Princess It was common to lend the portraitist the clothing that you wanted to be depicted in It is therefore assumed that the costumes in which the mannequins were dressed actually belonged to the Royal children Wertmüller also ordered a special coiffure from the Queen ™s wigmaker Monsieur Léonard and he is likely to have had access to the robe à la turque Turkish dress that Marie Antoinette is wearing in the portrait Wertmüller portrays the Queen in an environment where she spent much of her time the gardens surrounding her palace Petit Trianon near Versailles It is the Queen ™s role as a mother that is highlighted in the portrait in the spirit of Rousseau This is a conscious choice part of a strategy to change the official image of Marie Antoinette from a frivolous foreigner who loved life ™s luxuries to the mother of all France Princess Marie-Thérèse Charlotte has dropped a rose on the ground Perhaps she pricked herself on a thorn The dress does have small flecks of blood on it The Dauphin is holding tightly onto his mother ™s dress Marie Antoinette was 30 years old when the portrait was painted Louis-Joseph was four He died three years later of tuberculosis Marie-Thérèse Charlotte was the only member of the family to survive the Revolution Adolf Fredrik Wertmüller mÃ¥lade det här porträttet av Marie Antoinette och tvÃ¥ av hennes barn pÃ¥ beställning av Gustav III MÃ¥lningen ställdes ut pÃ¥ Salongen i Paris 1785 fyra Ã¥r innan den franska revolutionen bröt ut I Wertmüllers självbiografi kan man läsa hur arbetet med porträttet gick till Jag reste ¦ till Versailles och därifrÃ¥n til lilla Trianon hvarest hon vistades alla somrar Där mÃ¥lade jag hennes och Princessans portraiter som dÃ¥ var 6 Ã¥r gammal; drottningen emottog mig med den allra största godhet och distinction gaf order at jag skulle fÃ¥ mÃ¥la hans k höghet le Daphin pÃ¥ la Muette den franske kronprinsens residens hvarest jag var ¦ Jag styrde sedan tillbaka till Paris och mÃ¥lade en stor tafla af naturlig storlek och personernas fulla längd Till sin ateljé i Paris beställde Wertmüller tvÃ¥ provdockor “ en för kronprinsens porträtt och en för prinsessans Det var vanligt att man lÃ¥nade ut kläderna man ville bli avbildad i till porträttkonstnären Man antar därför att dockorna kläddes i dräkter som var kungabarnens egna Wertmüller beställde även en särskild hÃ¥ruppsättning av drottningens perukmakare Monsieur Léonard Han hade förmodligen även tillgÃ¥ng till den robe a la turque turkiska klän¬ning som Marie Antoinette bär i porträttet Wertmüller framställer drottningen i en miljö där hon tillbringade mycket tid i parken som omgav hennes slott Petit Trianon vid Versailles Det är drottningens roll som mor som lyfts fram i porträttet helt i Rousseaus anda Det är ett medvetet val en del i strategin att förvandla den officiella bilden av Marie-Antoinette frÃ¥n lyxkonsumerande livsnjutande utlänning till hela Frankrikes moder Prinsessan Marie-Thérèse Charlotte har tappat en ros pÃ¥ marken Kanske släppte hon den för hon stack sig pÃ¥ den Klänningen har smÃ¥ blodfläckar Kronprinsen le Dauphin hÃ¥ller hÃ¥rt i mammas klänning Marie-Antoinette var 30 Ã¥r gammal när porträttet mÃ¥lades Louis-Joseph var fyra Ã¥r Han dog tre Ã¥r senare i tuberkulos Marie-Antoinette giljotinerades i samband med den franska revolutionen Ã¥r 1793 Marie-Thérèse Charlotte var den enda i familjen som överlevde revolutionen 1785 Olja pÃ¥ duk Krön 32 cm Size cm 194 276 Framed Size cm 233 371 9 Institution Nationalmuseum Stockholm Signerad A Wertmüller Svedois à Paris 1785 accession number 18035 NM 1032 place of creation Erik Cornelius / Nationalmuseum Nationalmuseum Stockholm cooperation project Licensed-PD-Art PD-old-auto PD-Nationalmuseum_Stockholm 1811 Media contributed by Nationalmuseum Stockholm 2016-10 Paintings in the Nationalmuseum Stockholm Marie Antoinette of Austria Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller | ||||