Marie Antoinette
- Medium
- Etching and engraving printed on two sheets as follows: oval portrait in wash manner on full sheet in yellow, blue, red, and black from four plates; decorative frame cut out in center, in blue and orange from two plates
- Dimensions
- Image/sight: 25.2 × 20.3 cm (9 15/16 × 8 in.); Frame: 39.5 × 30.4 cm (15 9/16 × 12 in.)
- Genre
- etching
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
red inkinkprintprints and drawingcolored inkblack inketchingcoating (material)blue ink
About
Very probably this rare print never appeared in a large edition not only because of the complicated procedure involved in its making, but also because the process was illegally borrowed from Jacques Fabien Gautier Dagoty, who received a royal license for the technique.
