Absolutism posters & prints

French Caricature on Absolutism of Kings Anonymous

Scene from the Rivals at the Charing Cross Theatre, London, Mr. John Clarke As Bob Acres, and Mr. Charles Harcourt... Anonymous

The Confession Domenico di Niccolo dei Cori

The glorification of Louis XIV Antoine Coypel

Remissio Peccatorum, from the Allegories on the Christian Creed, 1598 Hendrik Goltzius

Marie Antoinette Edward Matthew Ward

Portrait of the Marquise de Pompadour François Boucher

Concert Augustin de Saint-Aubin

The Absolute Kings Forced to Swallow the Pill of the Constitution, 1848 French School

Oxford: The Freshman and His Parents, Beginning Residence: Arrival of Absolute Necessities Anonymous

Portrait of Count Hans Axel von Fersen, 1784 Niclas Lafrensen

Marie Antoinette at the Conciergerie Anonymous

Marie Antoinette Listening to the Act of Accusation the Day Before Her Trial, 1860s Anonymous

Portrait of the King Louis XVI Joseph-Siffred Duplessis

Order restored in the Kingdoms finances, 1662, 1680s Charles Le Brun

Marie Antoinette at the Conciergerie as Prisoner, 1793 Jean-Louis Prieur

The King governs by himself, 1661, 1680s Charles Le Brun

Image depicting Samantabhadra, together with his consort, symbolising unity with the absolute School Nepalese

Portrait of Louis XIV as Baby, ca 1638 Anonymous

Full-length portrait of the Marquise de Pompadour (1721-1764) Maurice Quentin de La Tour

The Battle of Fontenoy, 11 May 1745 Pierre Lenfant

Anna of Austria with her children, praying to the Holy Trinity with Saints Benedict and Scholastica Philippe de Champaigne

Equestrian portrait of Louis XIV René-Antoine Houasse

Coronation Portrait of Empress Maria Feodorovna, Princess Dagmar of Denmark Ivan Nikolayevich Kramskoi

Allegory of the Treaty of the Pyrenees (Allegory of the Marriage of Louis XIV) Claude Deruet

Portrait of Marie Leszczynska, Queen of France Franz Bernhard Frey

Portrait of Marie Antoinette, Archduchess of Austria and Queen of France and Navarre, 18 Anonymous

Madame Adélaïde Aughié, friend of Queen Marie Antoinette, as a dairymaid at Trianon, 1787 Anonymous

The Absolute Last Straw Jeanette Lassen

Travel kit (Nécessaire de voyage) of Queen Marie Antoinette of France Anonymous

The conquest of Cambrai on April 18, 1677 Charles Le Brun

Guatemalan Lilies, Absolutely Fabulous Set, 1994 Hilary Simon

Louis XVI before the scaffold Charles Benazech

Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, marquise de Montespan, as Diana Anonymous

Louis XIV, King of France, 1702 Hyacinthe François Honoré Rigaud

Portrait of the Marquise de Pompadour, 1763-1764 Anonymous