Queen Marie-Antoinette (detail)

Marie-Louise-Élizabeth Vigée-Lebrun painted this portrait of the French queen Marie-Antoinette and her children in 1788. The queen appears in the most stylish and lavish fashions of the day. When her eldest son (not shown in this detail) died in 1789, her second son (on her lap here) became heir to the throne. Known to supporters of the monarch as Louis XVII, the child died in prison in 1795 and never ruled. Vigée-Lebrun fled France in 1789 and returned only in 1805. (Château de Versailles, France / Giraudon / Bridgeman Images.)