After Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun · after 1783

Marie Antoinette en Chemise

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Marie Antoinette in a simple white muslin gown and straw hat, tying a ribbon around a bouquet of roses. This is the National Gallery of Art's period version, painted after Vigée Le Brun's 1783 portrait that scandalised the Paris Salon. National Gallery of Art, Washington.

Up to 36 × 45.7 in · portrait

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Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.

Scale next to a 5'10" person

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Materials & quality

›Canvas & inks

Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.

›Floater frame

Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.

›Posters

Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.

›Faithful to the source

Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.

About this painting

The story of Marie Antoinette en Chemise

Exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1783, this portrait showed the Queen of France in a loose white muslin gown — the informal robe en gaulle she wore at the Petit Trianon — with a straw hat and a handful of roses, and no crown, jewels or court silk. Critics were appalled that the queen had been painted in what looked to them like her underclothes, and the canvas was withdrawn within days; Vigée Le Brun quickly replaced it with Marie Antoinette with a Rose, the same pose in a blue-grey silk court dress. The scandal only made the dress more fashionable: the style became known as the chemise à la reine. Marie Antoinette gave the original to the Princess of Hesse-Darmstadt in 1783, and it remains in the Hesse family collection (Hessische Hausstiftung) in Germany. The canvas reproduced here is not that original: it is the version in the National Gallery of Art, Washington (Timken Collection, 1960.6.41), which the museum catalogues as painted after Vigée Le Brun, by an unidentified hand, some time after 1783. It repeats the composition closely and is printed from the museum's open-access scan.

About the artist

Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, also known as Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun or simply Madame Le Brun, was a French painter who mostly specialized in portrait painting, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

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Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Frequently asked

Marie Antoinette en Chemise— questions & answers

›Why was Marie Antoinette en Chemise a scandal?

Shown at the Salon of 1783, it depicted the queen in an informal white muslin gown (a robe en gaulle) instead of court dress. Critics thought it looked like underclothing, and the portrait was withdrawn and replaced by Marie Antoinette with a Rose.

›Can I buy a Marie Antoinette en Chemise canvas print in Canada?

Yes — Chromora prints the National Gallery of Art's version of Marie Antoinette en Chemise (after Vigée Le Brun) on museum-quality archival cotton canvas, hand-finished in Ottawa and shipped across Canada.

›Where is the original Marie Antoinette en Chemise?

Vigée Le Brun's 1783 original, given by Marie Antoinette to the Princess of Hesse-Darmstadt, remains in the Hesse family collection (Hessische Hausstiftung) in Germany. This print reproduces the version painted after it, now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington.

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