Sophie Kipner

Marie Antoinette

It will be seven years before she bears her first of four children. Twenty-three years of a strategically aligned marriage to a man who will never know how to love her. Truly. Twenty-three years until she and her husband will be wrongfully accused of and tried for treason. Twenty-three years until their heads will be severed from their bodies by a guillotine. But before the Revolution, before the Reign of Terror and the gambling and extravagant parties indicative of her famously hedonistic lifestyle, she sits in this room. Hues of gentle pink wash across her porcelain skin as the afternoon light saturates the house, royal and French as it was. Elle est magnifique, here in this moment, young, intriguing and newly wed in this wedding dress of cream silk and pearls.