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| photo St Tyl |
My last posting made me think of another rug I had seen that is associated with Marie-Antoinette. In many ways the rug I just showed you at the Domaine de Madame Elisabeth, made with her own hands, could be considered her last. Here, this relic, the fragment of a rug pictured above, is said to have been located in the Marie-Antoinette's prison cell at the Conciergerie. It is not much to look at, but it is document of the past.
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| source: monuments-nationaux |
In color, it resembles the rug in the painting by Gervais Simon, La reine dans son cachot.
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| photo St Tyl |
The painting was commissioned by Louis XVIII is part of the Expiatory Chapel of the Conciergerie today,
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| photo St Tyl |
where walls are covered with silver tears and draped with black hangings, traditional signs of mourning.
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