David’s original painting of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier and his wife depicted the couple as self-indulged nobles rather than liberal leaders of science. Met conservator Dorothy Mahon performs ...

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 noticed ...

In 1788, Jacques Louis David painted a full-length double portrait of the chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier and Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze Lavoisier, his wife and scientific collaborator, casting ...

The Louvre celebrates the French master—who painted for Louis XVI before morphing into an ardent revolutionary and then a portraitist of Napoleon—with an exhibition marking the bicentennial of his ...

25.75 x 21.5 in. (65.4 x 54.6 cm.) Subscribe now to view details for this work, and gain access to over 18 million auction results. Purchase One-Day Pass ...

The major survey repositions the French artist as more than a Neoclassicist, emphasising instead his realism and idealism ...

57 x 44 cm. (22.4 x 17.3 in.) Subscribe now to view details for this work, and gain access to over 18 million auction results. Purchase One-Day Pass ...

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