EPISODE 2 MARIE ANTOINETTE
In this episode, we are slipping on white muslin dresses for a frolic around the Hameau de la Reine, Marie Antoinette’s idyllic retreat at Versailles. We discuss 18th-century French portraiture and landscape architecture, and fangirl over Sofia Coppola’s 2006 masterpiece.
Image 1: Marie Antoinette in a Chemise Dress, Elisabeth Louise Vigée-Lebrun, 1783, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Image 2: Marie Antoinette and Her Children, Elisabeth Louise Vigée-Lebrun, 1787, Palace of Versailles, Versailles
Image 3: “Marie Antoinette and Her Ladies”, Sofia Coppola, Marie Antoinette, 2006
Image 4: “At the Petit Hameau”,Sofia Coppola, Marie Antoinette, 2006
Resources:
https://www.racked.com/2018/1/10/16854076/marie-antoinette-dress-slave-trade-chemise-a-la-reine
https://www.jstor.org/stable/30054251
Ferriss, Suzanne, and Mallory Young. '‘Marie Antoinette’: Fashion, Third-Wave Feminism, and Chick Culture' Literature/Film Quarterly 38, no. 2, 2010. www.jstor.org/stable/43797666
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Jollet, Etienne. 'Interior in the Exterior: Marie-Antoinette's Grotto at Trianon' Interiors and Interiority ed. Ewa Lajer-Burcharth (Berlin, 2015)
Martin, Meredith. Dairy Queens: The Politics of Pastoral Architecture from Catherine de Medici to Marie Antoinette (Cambridge, 2011)
Macarthur, John. The Picturesque: Architecture, Disgust, and other Irregularities (London, 2007)
Le Dantec, Denise and Le Dantec, Jean-Pierre. Reading the French Garden: Story and History, transl. Jessica Levine, (Cambridge, 1990)
Jill H. Casid, ‘Queer(y)ing Georgic: Utility, Pleasure, and Marie-Antoinette’s Ornamental Farm’, Eighteenth-Century Studies 30 (3, 1997)
Lauren Louise Dunley, ‘FRANCE IN RUINS: PAINTINGS BY HUBERT ROBERT C.1786 – 1788’ (MA diss., University of Birmingham, 2013
