# Vigée Le Brun’s 1783 Marie-Antoinette with a Rose is a completed lifetime court portrait, later a public museum face

Date: 1783

## The fact

The Met and Versailles print Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun’s 1783 portrait known as [Marie-Antoinette](/people/marie-antoinette) with a Rose as a completed sitting in the queen’s lifetime. It is not a later romantic novel. The painter and the sitter share the work. Later Google Art / Wikimedia files are carriers.

It is one event.

## Context

Salon controversy over muslin dress versions is neighbouring art-politics, not a twin.

Marie-Antoinette’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

Lived 1755–1793; queen consort from 1774. Household officers, Austrian diplomats, the king, and later Revolutionary clerks share the file. Cake is a later slogan, not a sourced utterance. The Diamond Necklace is allegation and image. Fiscal crisis is not stored as her unique coefficient. Complex contribution is required.

Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file.

## Evidence and sources

Met collection/Heilbrunn pages and Versailles independently describe the 1783 Rose-type portrait.

Official or archival record: Met Heilbrunn — Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/vgeb/hd_vgeb.htm; Metropolitan Museum of Art).

## Significance

A completed, attributed lifetime portrait is a knowledge-and-public-face path. It is not a unique fashion GDP.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 1783 Vigée Le Brun portrait as a dated court picture. Not established: that the canvas caused 1789.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Marie-Antoinette.

They are not a public rating.

Marie-Antoinette did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. Keep the sitting distinct from later cake cartoons. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of Marie-Antoinette.

## People

- Marie-Antoinette: https://factrail.ai/people/marie-antoinette

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/vgeb/hd_vgeb.htm
- https://en.chateauversailles.fr/discover/history/great-characters/marie-antoinette

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ma-rose-portrait-1783