The first portrait that Vigee Le Brun painted, in her twenty-fourth year (1779) of Marie Antoinette. Here is no hint of the tragedy that was to overwhelm the handsome young daughter of Austria; all was as yet but gaiety and roses and sunshine and pleasant airs, and the glamour that hovers about a throne. But there are signs of the imperious temper of her house, combined with the levity and frivolity of manners which were so early to make her unpopular. I. The Beginnings II. The Wonderful Child III. Marriage and Motherhood IV. Marie Antoinette V. Sweet Exile VI. The End…
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