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H 33 in W 28.5 in |
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Original rare 18th Century oil on canvas with Red Cap symbol,le bonnet rouge, the red cockade of the Revolution. They forced Louis XVI to wear the red cap during the attack on the Tuileries in June 1792. He obliged the mob, and this picture is a commemoration of those times.
Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette...
"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."
Edmund Burke, October 1790 |
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$ 17999 |
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