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Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
Marie Antoinette is Dead
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Marie Antoinette is Dead

Artist Fabiola Jean-Louis (American, born Haiti, born 1978)
DateImage 2016; printed 2021
MediumArchival pigment print
DimensionsPaper: 51 3/4 x 40 1/4 in. (131.4 x 102.2 cm)
Other (Image): 49 3/4 x 38 1/2 in. (126.4 x 97.8 cm)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineMuseum purchase, funds provided by the Caroline Julier and James G. Richardson Acquisition Fund
Object number2022.4
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DescriptionBlack woman dressed in French 18th century period gown called a “robe à la française” (open robe, petticoat, low neckline, fitted bodice, narrow sleeves, double layered cuffs). She sits for a classic Rococo-style portrait in chair with lush curtains parted on either side. A Voodoo doll in her hand and Voodoo apparatus on table nearby.
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Robe
China
Qing Dynasty, Late 19th c
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Pair of Embroidered Sleeves (raf-raf)
Tunisian Artist
late 20th century
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Untitled
American
c. 1945
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Randy Batista
Court Lady
China
Tang Dynasty (618-906), 8th Century
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Randy Batista
Baby Gene Pool's First Photograph
Robert Fichter
1980s
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Untitled
Arnold Mesches
2008
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Employment Agency
Jean Artman
c. 1936-1943
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Untitled
Jean Leon Gerome
c. 1880
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Mother and Child
Jean Charlot
n.d.
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33 Euphonia Galoti
Jean Theodore Descourtilz
1852-1856
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36 Tanagra Punctata
Jean Theodore Descourtilz
1852-1856
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40 Pipra Militaris
Jean Theodore Descourtilz
1852-1856

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