Joseph Kranzinger

{{Short description|Austrian painter (1731-1775)}}

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Joseph Kranzinger (14 February 1731, in Mattsee – 27 March 1775 in Versailles), alternatively Krantzinger, was an Austrian Rococo style pastel painter, best remembered for being commissioned by the Menus-Plaisirs du Roi to paint a portrait of Marie Antoinette in 1769, and for a later painting of the French queen which was misattributed to Jean-Étienne Liotard.{{cite book |last1=Jeffares |first1=Neil |title=Dictionary of pastellists before 1800 |date=22 June 2018 |url=http://www.pastellists.com/Articles/KRANZINGER.pdf |access-date=10 March 2023 |chapter=KRANZINGER, Joseph}}{{cite book |last1=Jallut |first1=Marguerite |title=Alte und Moderne Kunst |date=April 1958 |publisher=Vienna Academy of Fine Arts |location=Vienna |pages=2–4 |url=https://hauspublikationen.mak.at/viewer/image/1367984192602_0001/4/LOG_0007/ |access-date=6 April 2023 |chapter=Joseph Kranzinger, der Porträtist der Dauphine }}{{cite web |title=Joseph Kranzinger: Marie Antoinette im roten Jagdkostüm, Pastell auf Pergament, um 1772 |url=https://www.habsburger.net/de/medien/joseph-kranzinger-marie-antoinette-im-roten-jagdkostum-pastell-auf-pergament-um-1768 |website=Die Welt der Habsburger |access-date=10 March 2023 |language=de}}