Marie-Louise-Élisabeth Vigée-LeBrun was a French painter in the Rococo style, and is recognized as the most important female painter of the eighteenth century. She served as the portrait painter to Marie Antoinette, painting more than thirty portraits of the queen and her family. This engraving by Bartolozzi, executed and published in London in 1783, was engraved after a color pastel by Louise-Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, drawn just after the French Revolution, when she adopted a more Neo-classical style of dress in her portrayals.
