Jacques Louis David, 1788 - Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) and His Wife (Mary Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758-1836) - fine art print

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This magnificent double portrait dates to 1788, when the artist was the standard-bearer of French Neoclassicism. For political reasons, Lavoisier was obliged to withdraw it from the 1789 Salon, and it was not exhibited for a century. Lavoisier was a chemist and famous for his pioneering studies of gunpowder, oxygen, and the chemical composition of water. In 1789 he published a chemistry textbook illustrated by his wife. Despite his services to both the monarchy and the revolutionary regime, he was guillotined.

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Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) and His Wife (Mary Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758-1836) was by Jacques Louis David in 1788. The more than 230 year-old original measures the size: 102 1/4 x 76 5/8 in (259,7 x 194,6 cm) and was painted with the medium oil on canvas. This work of art belongs to the digital collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. This classic art public domain masterpiece is being provided with courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman Gift, in honor of Everett Fahy, 1977. Creditline of the artwork: Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman Gift, in honor of Everett Fahy, 1977. What is more, the alignment of the digital reproduction is in portrait format and has a side ratio of 3 : 4, which implies that the length is 25% shorter than the width. The painter Jacques Louis David was a European artist from France, whose art style can mainly be classified as Classicism. The artist lived for a total of 77 years, born in the year 1748 in Paris and passed away in the year 1825 in Brussels.

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