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| Keywords: Marie Antoinette Young6.jpg Artwork creator Johann Georg Weigert Fête Organized to Celebrate the Marriage of the Emperor Joseph II to Princess Marie-Josèphe of Bavaria 23/24 January 1765 1765 oil canvas cm 183 145 en Hofburg or Schönbrunn palace en One of three versions of this subject attributed for many years to Weikert who became one the most favored Austrian Court painters in the reign of the Empress Maria Theresa Weikert enjoyed a successful career in painting numerous portraits of the Empress and the ten of her sixteen children to survive to adulthood The attribution of the Schönbrunn painting and the other versions is no longer securely given to this artist however but to an unknown painter working at the Court of Maria Theresia It is the subject however which is of special interest The occasion was a performance written for and performed by the Imperial children to celebrate their eldest brother Joseph ™s marriage to Princess Marie-Josèphe of Bavaria on 23 January 1765 The role of cupid was played by the Archduke Maximilian while the Archduke Ferdinand portrayed the Groom and the Archduchess Marie-Antoinette the Bride The young ladies from left to right were Countesses Christine and Thérèse von Clary und Aldringen and Countesses Christine and Pauline von Auersperg The male roles were played by Frederick Landgraf von Furstenberg Count Franz Xavier von Auersperg and Counts Joseph and Wenceslas von Clary und Aldringen The first version of the painting remains in Vienna in the Schönbrunn Palace; a second version was commissioned from the artist in 1778 by Marie-Antoinette to hang in her dining-room in the Grand Trianon and is now in the Versailles Museum ; this third version commissioned by another of the participants was until recently in an American collection it Il dipinto raffigura i figli minori dell'imperatrice Maria Teresa Ferdinando Carlo e Massimiliano Francesco danzano un balletto con la sorella Maria Antonietta Il titolo della danza era Il Trionfo d'Amore musica da Florian Leopold Gassmann su libretto di Metastasio Lo spettacolo fu recitato a Schonbrunn nel gennaio del 1765 in occasione delle nozze dell'imperatore Giuseppe II con Maria di Baviera Questo dipinto è stato attribuito a Weikert 1745-1799 e una copia è conservata a Versailles http //www ladyreading net/marieantoinette/big/marie17 jpg Other versions <gallery> File Johann Georg Weikert 004 jpg Versailles File Marie Antoinette Dancing jpg Hofburg Vienna File Johann Georg_Weikert 005 jpg detail </gallery> PD-old-100 DEFAULTSORT Weikert Habsburg-Lorraine 1765 Johann Georg Weikert Paintings in the Hofburg Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Este Archduke Maximilian Franz of Austria Marie Antoinette of Austria as a child House of Habsburg-Lorraine Triumph of Love Palace Theatre Schönbrunn Pietro Metastasio 18th-century oil portraits of children 18th-century portrait paintings in Austria 18th-century portraits of children at full length 18th-century dancers 1760s portrait paintings 1765 in theatre 1765 portrait paintings 1765 in dance | ||||
