Ref. Option Price | BW400381 Clips € 195.00 | BW400382 Pierced ears € 195.00
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(07/31/07)
These earrings are inspired by the painting Marie-Antoinette de Hasbourg-Lorraine, reine de France et ses enfants painted in 1787 by Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Le-Brun, Ordered by the Direction of the Building industries, this painting represents the...
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(07/31/07) These earrings are inspired by the painting Marie-Antoinette de Hasbourg-Lorraine, reine de France et ses enfants painted in 1787 by Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Le-Brun, Ordered by the Direction of the Building industries, this painting represents the queen as a mother, surrounded of Marie-Thérèse known as "Mrs Royale", born in 1778, of the Louis-Joseph born in 1781 and deceased in 1789. On her knees, Marie-Antoinette holds Louis-Charles born in 1785 and future Louis XVII. The cradle, empty, evokes the recent death of the last child of the queen, Sophie-Helene-Beatrice born in 1786. Marie-Antoinette carries a pair of very beautiful earrings of pearl, in the pear shape. The purpose of the choice of this painting showing the queen as a mother, was to make him regain a little popularity, sullied by recent "L'affaire du Collier". See less