Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette

Jean Pillement, Jean-Baptiste-André Gautier-Dagoty, and Louis Bonvallet

National Gallery of Art

This print shows two oval portraits side by side, each displaying a bust of a person in profile looking towards the middle. The left portrait features a man with a high forehead, white hair that curls around his ears, a sharp nose, and a soft chin, with his lips set in a slight smile. He is wearing an ornate jacket with ruffles around the neck. The right portrait shows a woman with an ornate hairstyle featuring curls, feathers, pearls, lace, and a cloth veil. She wears a dress with a low neckline trimmed with lace and strands of pearls across her chest. She has a long neck, thin eyebrows, and thin lips. Both portraits are set within blue frames rimmed in gold and surrounding them is a background filled with a garland of pink flowers, green leaves, and blue ribbons. A green wreath is positioned above the two portraits. The background is beige paper.