Not Marie Antoinette
October 10 2025
Picture: The Times
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Times ran an interesting story this week regarding research which shows that a Liotard pastel in Geneva, which was long thought to depict Marie Antoinette as a child, is actually the likeness of ill-fated Queen's sister Maria Carolina instead. Prof. Catriona Seth, of the University of Oxford, looked into the Liotard portraits in preparation for a book she is writing where she spotted a discrepancy in the brooches worn by the girls. Marie Anoinette is in fact the girl illustrated in the portrait on the right.
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