{"product_id":"f003-sy-251-236a","title":"Framed Engraving of Marie Antoinette","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis truly is a find of a life time. A rare 18th-century engraving of Marie Antoinette, after Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun's \u003cem\u003eMarie Antoinette en grand habit de cour\u003c\/em\u003e, painted in 1778 when the queen was twenty-two and four years on the throne. Vigée Le Brun painted around thirty portraits of her over the next decade and became, in many ways, the keeper of her image; this engraving reproduces the most formal of them, the queen in full court dress, paniers and feathered headdress, posed against a column and a heavy velvet drape. Engravings like this were how the queen's likeness travelled - to provincial châteaux, to foreign courts, to private collectors - long before photography existed to multiply a face. The plate would have been cut by hand, line by line, into copper by a master engraver working from the painting or from a drawing made after it. It survives in its original gilt frame with the egg-and-dart and beaded mouldings of the period, the gilding rubbed in the places where hands have touched it for two hundred years. Sylvie hangs it where it can hold a room on its own, above a console with two candlesticks and nothing else.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sylvie","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46892955730143,"sku":"F003-SY-251-236","price":2595.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0683\/4228\/4511\/files\/55730143_019_ba1452c8-2dc6-4bd7-b162-0e2d6754eede.jpg?v=1778704475","url":"https:\/\/checkout.sylvie.co\/products\/f003-sy-251-236a","provider":"Sylvie","version":"1.0","type":"link"}