Female Portraiture and Patronage in Marie-Antoinette’s Court. The Princesse de Lamballe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14903976 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rochelle Ziskin (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 195-196 |
| Publication date | 2020-04-28 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the History of Collections (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0954-6650 • E-ISSN: 1477-8564 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jhc/fhz010 |
| OpenAlex | W2926803959 |
| Language | FR |
| Citations received | 2 |
The Princesse de Lamballe (1749–1792) is a notable and sympathetic historical figure, and this study enhances our understanding of her patronage during the decade and a half preceding the French Revolution. Among the leaders of the retinue of Marie-Antoinette, Lamballe may be best known today, with the possible exception of her rival and successor in the queen’s affections, the Duchesse de Polignac. Lamballe’s fame stems in part from the unsympathetic memoirs of the Comtesse de Genlis, as well as nineteenth-century faux memoirs, salacious prints circulating at the time of the Revolution, and the circumstances of her death. She was an adolescent of the Carignano branch of the Savoy family in Turin when selected to wed the Prince de Lamballe, son of the Duc de Penthièvre, himself a grandson of Louis XIV and son of the legitimated Comte de Toulouse. Soon after they married in 1767, the prince resumed his promiscuity and died of syphilis just eighteen months later. When Marie-Antoinette became queen, she selected the widowed princess as Surintendante of her household, a post of considerable power and outsized remuneration. Lamballe is known for her violent death at the hands of an angry Parisian mob in September 1792. When she refused to renounce the king and queen, she was brutally attacked, her decapitated head set on a pike and paraded through the streets of Paris.
Ancient history · Art · Art history · Humanities · Memoir · Power (physics) · Queen (butterfly) · European Political History Analysis · Historical Art and Culture Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
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| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |