It is a long bust portrait that shows the queen in a very flattering and intimate light. She looks very dignified in a simple yet luxurious silk dress the colour of "London chimney soot", adorned with precious lace. Feathers decorating her hair, Marie-Antoinette is holding a bouquet of roses. Madame Vigée Le Brun was called upon to paint this portrait very quickly to replace a painting showing Marie-Antoinette in a muslin dress; that image was judged to be indecorous when it was exhibited at the Salon in 1783. The puzzle features no two pieces the same, no corner shapes and
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