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![]() ![]() Marie Antoinette was also quite willing to comply with her adored mother's wishes, but she simply could not find a painter whose skills she agreed with. No one had ever managed to reproduce her likeness to her liking "The painters are killing me and driving me to despair!" wrote the disappointed queen to Vienna. ![]() Her interest in fashion earned not only admiration, but also a lot of ridicule. And Marie Antoinette's mother, Empress Maria Theresa, who had heard the whole thing in distant Vienna, thought this was unworthy of a queen. Nevertheless, she longed very much for a portrait of her youngest daughter, whom she had married abroad at such a young age. Today the painting hangs again in the Palace of Versailles. The portrait wasn't well received and Marie Antoinette gave it to the Austrian diplomat Prince Georg-Adam von Starhemberg, who had promoted the rapprochement of France and Austria. Jean-Baptiste André Gautier-Dagoty (1740-1786), Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, 1775, oil on canvas, 160 x 128 cm. Related: The Art of Fashion: Fashion in Artįashion became one of the greatest pleasures for the unhappily married young queen, who loathed her royal duties, and together with Rose Bertin, who was named "Minister of Fashion" during the course of the collaboration, Marie Antoinette created a look that was her hallmark: towering hairstyles decorated with all sorts of ribbons and feathers - again an invention of their hairdresser Léonard Autié. That changed immensely, however, when Marie Antoinette became Queen four years later and, through her cousin-in-law, the Duchess of Chartres, and her dear friend, the Princess of Lamballe (both very fashion-conscious young women and sisters-in-law to boot), she came into contact with the stylish creations of the Paris milliner Rose Bertin. When the Austrian Archduchess Marie Antoinette married the heir to the French throne Louis-Auguste at the age of 14 in 1770 and moved to the Palace of Versailles, she was a tomboy who played with dogs and the children of her ladies-in-waiting. ![]()
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