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AFTER HIPPOLYTE PAUL DELAROCHE (1797-1856)
'Marie Antoinette à la conciergerie'
1857-58Albumen print? | RCIN 2160827
Photograph of a drawing by Paul Delaroche depicting Marie Antoinette (1755-93) reclining on the bed of her prison cell at the Conciergerie. A guard stands on the right and looks at the deposed queen over a concertina screen placed beside her bed. He rests his right elbow on the top of the screen. A second man guards the door at far right, seated on a chair that he leans against the wall.
Creator(s)
After Hippolyte Paul Delaroche (1797-1856) (artist)
Robert Jefferson Bingham (1825-70) (photographer)
Acquired by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
Subject(s)
- Social sciences
- Military affairs
- Wars, Campaigns & Battles
- Wars
- Wars of the eighteenth century
- Wars of the French Revolution (1792-1802)
- Wars of the eighteenth century
- Wars
- Wars, Campaigns & Battles
- Military affairs
- Social sciences
