Marie Antoinette portrait really sister, study finds

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MusΓ©e d'Art et d'Histoire The famous portrait is now thought to depict Marie Antoinette's older sister Maria Carolina

A famous portrait of Marie Antoinette as a child is really of her sister, new research has found. Swiss painter Jean Etienne Liotard's distinctive drawing of the last queen of France from 1762 has long shaped the

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