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Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)
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Title:Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)
Artist:Jacques Louis David (French, Paris 1748–1825 Brussels)
Date:1788
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:102 1/4 x 76 5/8 in. (259.7 x 194.6 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman Gift, in honor of Everett Fahy, 1977
Object Number:1977.10
This is one of the most important portraits of the eighteenth century, painted in 1788 when David had become the self-appointed standard-bearer of French Neoclassicism. Antoine Laurent Lavoisier is known today as the founder of modern chemistry, for his pioneering studies of gunpowder, oxygen, and the chemical composition of water. In 1789, his theories were published in the influential Traité elementaire de chimie. The illustrations in this book were prepared by his wife, Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze. She was only thirteen when her father, a fermier-général (tax collector for the royal government), married her to the twenty-eight-year-old Lavoisier. The couple's income and social sta
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Gustave Geffroy
Artist(s)
Cézanne Paul
auteur
Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône (13) (France) 1839 - Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône (13) (France) 1906
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Description
huile sur toile
Dimensions
H. 117 ; L. 89,5 cm avec cadre H. 140,1 ; L. 114,3 ; EP. 11,1 cm
Place of conservation
musée d'Orsay
collection Geffroy, Gustave
collection Wagram, de (prince), ?
en 1907, dans la collection Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, acheté le 28 janvier 1907 du précédent
à partir de 1907, dans la collection Auguste Pellerin, acheté le 29 janvier du précédent
collection Lecomte René et Madame (née Pellerin)
1969, accepté par l'Etat à titre de donation sous réserve d'usufruit de la petite-fille d'Auguste Pellerin (comité du 04/12/1969, conseil du 10/02/1969, arrêté du 13/02/1970)
1970, attribué au musée du Louvre, Paris
affecté au musée d'Orsay, Paris
2000, fin d'usufruit
2000, musée d'Orsay, Paris
Modality of acquisition
donation sous réserve d'usufruit
Salon d'automne - Galeries nationales du Grand Palais - France, Paris, 1907, n°16
Art contemporain - galerie Manzi, Joyant - France, Paris, 1912, n°19
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Painting by Missioner Signac
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