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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
DimensionsFrame: 58 1/2 x 47 x 2 7/8 in. (148.59 x 119.38 x 7.3 cm)
Paper: 51 3/4 x 40 1/4 in. (131.45 x 102.24 cm)
Image: 49 3/4 x 38 1/2 in. (126.37 x 97.79 cm)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineMuseum purchase, funds provided by the Caroline Julier and James G. Richardson Acquisition Fund
Object number2022.4
Collections
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.
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
Robe
Unknown Chinese Artist
Qing dynasty (1644-1911), late 19th century
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
Women’s Skirt with Motifs of Figures and Landscape 清代魚鱗百褶裙
Unknown Chinese Artist
Second half of the 19th century
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
Women’s Robe with Designs of Flowers and Melons紫色暗花綢瓜瓞紋褂
Unknown Chinese Artist
19th century
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
Pair of Embroidered Sleeves (raf-raf)
Tunisian Artist
late 20th century
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Untitled
American
c. 1945
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Women’s Robe with Motifs of Longevity
Unknown Chinese Artist
19th century
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Randy Batista
Baby Gene Pool's First Photograph
Robert Fichter
1980s
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
Untitled
Arnold Mesches
2008
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Employment Agency
Jean Artman
c. 1936-1943
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Untitled
Jean B. Thompson
undated
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Untitled
Jean Leon Gerome
c. 1880
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
Mother and Child
Jean Charlot
undated

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