Cultural depictions of Marie Antoinette "Marie Antoinette" for their prog rock band Curved Air. Wayne Shorter wrote a jazz tune of the same name; it was recorded by Freddie Hubbard. Michael Kunze and Sylvester Levay wrote a musical play called "Marie Antoinette" about the parallel lives of Antoinette and a fictional Margrid Arnaud. The play was written in English but premiered in Tokyo. The portrait of Marie Antoinette entitled "Marie Antoinette à la Rose" features as the front cover of the US alternative rock group Hole's 2010 album "Nobody's Daughter". The Charlie Sexton song "Impressed" references Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. Madonna dressed as Marie
Cultural depictions of Marie Antoinette the plight of Marie Antoinette and her family and focus more on the documentation surrounding the last months, weeks, and days prior to her execution, where she is more clearly seen as Marie Antoinette the penitent, caring mother rather than the defiant Queen of France. Some contemporary sources, such as Mary Wollstonecraft and Thomas Jefferson, place the blame of the French Revolution and the subsequent Reign of Terror squarely on Marie Antoinette's shoulders; others, such as those who knew her (her lady-in-waiting Madame Campan and the royal governess, the Marquise de Tourzel, among them) focus more on her sweet character