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Born #OnThisDay in 1781: #LouisJosephofFrance (1781-9), son of #LouisXVI & #MarieAntoinette
Portrait with sister #MarieThereseofFrance by Louise Élisabeth #VigéeLeBrun (1755-1842), 1784
#Bourbon #ChildrenInArt #SiblingsInArt #WomenArtists
Born #OnThisDay in 1781: #LouisJosephofFrance (1781-9), son of #LouisXVI & #MarieAntoinette
Portrait by #AdolfUlrikWertmüller (1751-1811), 1784
#Bourbon #ChildrenInArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1729: #LouisofFrance, Dauphin of France (1729-65), son of #LouisXV, father of #LouisXVI, #LouisXVIII & #CharlesX
Portrait by #AnneBaptisteNivelon (fl. 1754-71) after #MauriceQuentindeLaTour (1704-88), 1764
#Bourbon
Born #OnThisDay in 1753: #MarieJoséphineofSavoy (1753-1810), Countess of Provence as spouse of the future #LouisXVIII, daughter of #VictorAmadeusIII of Sardinia
Portrait by #JosephBoze (1745-1826), ca. 1785
#Savoy #Bourbon
Born #OnThisDay in 1753: #MarieJoséphineofSavoy (1753-1810), Countess of Provence as spouse of the future #LouisXVIII, daughter of #VictorAmadeusIII of Sardinia
Portrait by #JosephBoze (1745-1826), ca. 1790
#Savoy #Bourbon
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Born #OnThisDay in 1753: #MarieJoséphineofSavoy (1753-1810), Countess of Provence as spouse of the future #LouisXVIII, daughter of #VictorAmadeusIII of Sardinia
Portrait by Jean-Baptiste André #GautierDagoty (1740-86), 1777
#Savoy #Bourbon
Born #OnThisDay in 1753: #MarieJoséphineofSavoy (1753-1810), Countess of Provence as spouse of the future #LouisXVIII, daughter of #VictorAmadeusIII of Sardinia
Portrait by Joseph #Duplessis (1725-1802), 18th Century
#Savoy #Bourbon
Born #OnThisDay in 1754: #LouisXVI, King of France (1754-93)
Portrait by #JosephDuplessis (1725-1802), ca. 1775
#Bourbon
On this day in 1774-amid rumblings of discontent from below-#LouisXVI, 19, & his bride #MarieAntoinette, 18, became the reigning monarchs of #France. Anti-aristocracy passions, already simmering due to the nation's debt problems, only increased as their disastrous reign unfolded.
Born #OnThisDay in 1754: Charles Maurice de #Talleyrand-Périgord (1754-1838), French politician under #LouisXVI, #Napoleon, #LouisXVIII & #LouisPhilippe
Portrait by Pierre-Paul #Prudhon (1758-1823), 1807
#FrenchArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1781: #LouisJoseph (1781-9), #Dauphin of #France, son of #LouisXVI & #MarieAntoinette
#Portrait by Adolf Ulrik #Wertmüller (1751-1811), 1784
#Bourbon #Portraiture #SwedishArt #ChildrenInArt
#Nationalmuseum