Lot 20
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Barbier
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Barbier

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Barbier
A decorative miniature of Queen Marie-Antoinette being conducted from the prison of the Conciergerie to the Guillotine
on ivorine, signed 'Barbier', wood frame with gilt-metal border
rectangular, 4 1/8 x 2½ in. (105 x 63 mm.)
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Lot Essay

On 2nd August 1793 Queen Marie-Antoinette (1755-93) was sent to the Conciergerie. Eight weeks later she was arraigned before the Revolutionary Tribunal. Questioned for two days and nights she was sentenced to death and on the same day, 16th October 1793, she died by the guillotine.

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