Name: In Search of Marie Antoinette
Start: 2025-12-03T02:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-12-03T17:00:00+00:00
Location: The Wallace Collection

Marie-Antoinette commissioned some of the most brilliant craftsmen of the eighteenth century to furnish her interiors.
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Marie Antoinette commissioned some of the most brilliant craftsmen of the eighteenth century to furnish her interiors, creating intimate and elegant rooms evoking the new spirit of classicism, refinement and luxury. The Wallace Collection has fine examples of furniture made by the queen’s favourite cabinet-maker, Jean-Henri Riesener, seat furniture by Georges Jacob and other craftsmen who worked for the royal family, as well as work by Marie Antoinette’s portrait painter, Élisabeth Louise Vigée le Brun.