Edmund Dulac | Marie Antoinette, 1934, signed by the artist

Edmund Dulac

Marie Antoinette, 1934

335 x 305mm. (frame 532 x 486mm.), watercolour, SIGNED BY THE ARTIST TO LOWER LEFT, mounted, framed and glazed

Original watercolour illustration produced for the 1934 series of American Weekly covers, 'Follies that destroyed famous Queens', published 3rd June 1934. The other Queens illustrated for the series were: Cleopatra, Mary Queen of Scots, Dido, Queen Chand (a 15th-century Indian ruler) and Isabella of Bavaria.

PROVENANCE:

From the collection of the late Colin White

EXHIBITION:

Sheffield City Art Galleries, November 1982- May 1983, item no. 35: label to verso

LITERATURE:

Reproduced American Weekly, 3rd June 1934, cover artwork; Colin White, Edmund Dulac, 1976, p.155, 157, 161; Edmund Dulac : illustrator and designer, 1882-1953 : a centenary exhibition, Sheffield: Sheffield City Art Galleries, 1982