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Smithsonian Magazine3y
Iconic Portrait of French Chemist and His Wife Once Looked Entirely Different
Jacques-Louis David, Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836), 1788 Metropolitan Museum of Art Conservator Dorothy Mahon first ...
Artnet3y
Conservators at the Met Have Discovered a Hidden Composition Under Jacques Louis David’s Portrait of a Famed Chemist
Met conservator Dorothy Mahon performs conservation treatment on Jacques-Louis David’s Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie- Anne Lavoisier (Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758 ...
The Art Newspaper3y
Progressive scientists, or high-flying elitists? The Met unlocks a secret behind a famous Jacques-Louis David portrait
It reflects Jacques-Louis David's original rendering of Antoine Laurent and Marie-Anne Lavoisier in a 1788 portrait. Department of Paintings Conservation, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
The Washington Post3y
A master of propaganda, artist Jacques Louis David helped sell Frenchmen on the Revolution
In 1791, the French painter Jacques Louis David made a large, meticulously detailed drawing for a painting he never produced, called “The Oath of the Tennis Court.” It depicts a key moment ...
The New York Times3y
The Dangerous Beauty of Jacques-Louis David
It all sounds like children’s story hour in the shadow of Jacques-Louis David, the artist-moralist who depicted the French Revolution with lethal purity. In the 1780s, he eradicated the ...