Marie Antoinette Being Taken to Her Execution (David)

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Marie Antoinette Being Taken to Her Execution is an ink drawing by Jacques-Louis David, produced from the life from a flat window as Marie Antoinette was taken to her execution on 16 October 1793.

Its owner Jean-Louis Giraud-Soulavie added his monogram "S" in a circle at bottom right and below is an inscription by Soulavie.^[1]

References

↑ Louis Hautecœur, Louis David, Paris, La Table Ronde, 1954 (French)

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