Name/Title
Marie AntoinetteEntry/Object ID
1987.030.001Description
Portrait of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France. Bust-length portrait depicting the queen wearing a red dress with white lace trim on the neckline. She wears a string of pearls, and a large white powdered wig, held back with a gold and white band, in which is fixed two large feather plumes.
Coe Foundation Documents state that this painting was originally displayed in the Coe Family's Manhattan Apartment, River House.
*Provenance Needs to be ResearchedArtwork Details
Medium
Painting: Oil on canvas, Painting: Oil on CanvasCollection
Planting Fields FoundationCataloged By
CannarsaAcquisition
Accession
1987.030.001Source or Donor
Vitetti, Natalie CoeAcquisition Method
GiftMade/Created
Artist
Kucharski, AlexanderNotes
Date: c. 1770-Late 18th Century
Made: Alexander KucharskiLexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
PaintingNomenclature Class
ArtNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsLocation
Location
Room
Reception RoomBuilding
Coe HallCategory
PermanentDate
August 16, 2023Inventory
Inventory Project
INV2024.1Inventoried By
Amanda MassimillioInventoried Date
Jun 26, 2024Inventoried By
LegerInventoried Date
May 8, 2023Maintenance
Maintenance History
Date
Nov 28, 2006Notes
Treated by Sherman Art Conservation Center in 1987. Reattached a pocket of separation in an old glue lining with wax resin. Applied a coat of Winton retone, resin was applied, followed by inpainting with Maimeri Restoration Colors. Final spray of soluvar normal butyl methacrylate varnish.
On 8/12/1996 NYS Dept of Parks reported no treatment necessary.Provenance
Notes
Collected By: Natalie Coe Vitetti
W. R. Coe acquired it from Mrs. E. F. Hutton for $1,000. She had purchased it a day earlier, in 1939, at an auction from a Mr. Cailleux, who had bought it a few years before from a French duke, who was the descendant of the Dutchesse de Tourzel, the governess of Marie Antoinette's children.
After W.R.Coe's death in 1955, his son Robert D. Coe bought it from the Coe Foundation for $18,000, and kept it in his Cannes house.
William Robertson Coe
Robert D. Coe
Planting Fields FoundationResearch Notes
Research Type
CuratorPerson
Vincent CochetDate
Aug 26, 2025Notes
"I can confirm you that the style of the painting forbids to give it to E. Vigée-Lebrun and I am not sure that the attribution to Kurcharsky is believable. It is inspired by the manner of Vigée-Lebrun, but the strange thing in the signature LB on the left side. It could be the monogram of Louis Auguste Brun, said Brun de Versoix (1758-1815), who made different portraits of the Queen and the royal family during the reign of Louis XVI."Created By
admin@catalogit.appCreate Date
November 28, 2006Updated By
mpenny@plantingfields.orgUpdate Date
August 26, 2025
