Marie Antoinette holding Louis Charles with Marie Therese at her side. Her older son, Louis Joseph, is pointing into the cradle. Her youngest child, Sophie, died shortly after Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun completed the portrait and her image was removed from the cradle. Louis Joseph died of tuberculosis before his eighth birthday, mere days before the Tennis Court Oath and the beginning of the end of the monarchy. Simplistically speaking. The beginning of the end must've been coming for some time.
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