Regal and melancholy-beautiful, Marie Antoinette gazes from this reproduction of Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun's iconic full-length portrait — powdered wig towering with ribbon and plume, a single rose held delicately at arm's length — issued by the Service Commercial Monuments Historiques from the Grand Palais, Paris, in the early 1900s when museum postcard publishing was itself a novelty. Card number V.6511 in the Monuments Historiques series, this unused example retains its original brilliance, the halftone reproduction crisp and contrasty against the dark background of the original oil painting. An intersection of art history, French institutional publishing, and early postcard collecting culture, it appeals equally to Marie Antoinette enthusiasts, French royalist collectors, and students of Vigée Le Brun's extraordinary oeuvre.