Campana was Marie-Antoinette's favourite miniaturist and she even sent him to her friends in order to get them painted. In June 1783, she wrote to the Princess Charlotte of Hessen-Darmstadt: "Quand je vous ai donné mon portrait, ma chère princesse, j'ai cru acquérir quelques droits sur le vôtre et sur celui de la princesse héréditaire. Pour fatiguer le moins possible votre complaisance, je vous envoie Campana qui n'exige que cinq minutes par séance. Je ne vous dis rien du plaisir et de l'impatience de posséder deux portraits si précieux à mon amitié." (Maxime de La Rochetterie and Marquis de Beaucourt, Lettres de Marie-Antoinette, II, Paris, 1896, pp. 23-24). Nevertheless, very few miniatures by Campana representing the Queen seem to have survived. One was sent in 1782 to Lövstad, the castle of the Fersen Family in Sweden, where it still remains, another is in the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, and a third one, of reduced size, from the Félix Panhard Collection, is now in a private collection. A simplified studio replica of the present miniature is illustrated in Serge Grandjean, Les tabatières du musée du Louvre, Paris, 1981, nr 175.