Marie Antoinette handing a servant an oval portrait of herself for Madame de Lamballe. It was signed, Ses mahleurs l'ont blanchie, misfortunes made me grey. (Her hair went grey in her early 30s). Stipple copperplate engraving by Noel after an illustration by Sebastien Leroy from Marie Antoinette, Archiduchesse d'Autriche, Reine de France, chez le Fuel, Paris, 1815.

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