Past Exhibition

Marie-Antoinette

Bronze medal of a woman in profile to the left
Bronze medal of Marie Antoinette being driven to the guillotine in a horse-drawn cart through a crowded square accompanied by soldiers. The scaffolding of the guillotine in visible in the background.

Conrad Heinrich Küchler (act. 1763–1821)
Marie-Antoinette (1755–1793), dated 1793
Copper, struck
Diam.: 1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm)
The Frick Collection; Gift of Stephen K. and Janie Woo Scher, 2016

Cat. 71