File:David - Portrait of Monsieur Lavoisier and His Wife.jpg

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English

Portrait of Antoine Lavoisier and his Wife

Summary

Jacques-Louis David: Portrait of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and his wife

Artist



Description	French painter, politician and architectural draftsperson
Date of birth/death	30 August 1748	29 December 1825
Location of birth/death	Paris	City of Brussels
Work period	neoclassicism era QS:P2348,Q14378
Work location	Paris, Rome, City of Brussels
Authority file	: Q83155 VIAF: 66575297 ISNI: 0000000121374173 ULAN: 500115221 LCCN: n50035639 NLA: 35033606 WorldCat

Title

English: Portrait of Monsieur de Lavoisier and his Wife, chemist Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze

Français : Portrait de Monsieur de Lavoisier et sa femme Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze

Polski: Portret Monsieur de Lavoisier i jego żony, chemik Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze

Ελληνικά: Γάλλος χημικός Ο Αντουάν Λωράν Λαβουαζιέ με την γυναίκα του Μαρί Αν

Object type

painting

Genre

portrait

Depicted people

Date

1788

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 259.7 cm (102.2 in); width: 194.6 cm (76.6 in)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

	Native name	Metropolitan Museum of Art
	Location	Manhattan, New York City, United States of America
	Coordinates	40° 46′ 46″ N, 73° 57′ 48″ W
	Established	1870
	Website	www.metmuseum.org
	Authority file	: Q160236 VIAF: 126238294 ISNI: 0000000419368761 ULAN: 500125157 LCCN: n79129629 NLA: 36247933 WorldCat

Current location

Gallery 614

Accession number

1977.10

Object history

Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, Paris (1788–d. 1794); Mme Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, later Countess Rumford, Paris (1794–d. 1836); her great-niece, comtesse Pierre-Léon Bérard de Chazelles (Jeanne-Marie-Laure-Hélène-Gabrielle Ramey de Sugny), Paris, and later the Auvergne (1836–1876 [his death] or 1888 [her death]); her son, comte Étienne Bérard de Chazelles, Paris, and château de la Canière, near Aigueperse (by 1888–d. 1923; his estate, 1923–24; sold by his heirs to Wildenstein); [Wildenstein, Paris and New York, 1924–25; sold to Rockefeller]; John D. Rockefeller Jr., New York (1925–27); Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, later Rockefeller University, New York (1927–77; sold to MMA)

Credit line

Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman Gift, in honor of Everett Fahy, 1977

Inscriptions

Signed, dated, and inscribed (lower left): L. David [faciebat] / parisiis anno / 1788

References

Source/Photographer

Metropolitan Museum of Art: entry 436106 (accession number: 1977.10)

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	18:02, 20 March 2020	4,390 × 5,852 (1.59 MB)	CFCF (talk \| contribs)	If you took time to look, the opposite is true. The filesize may be higher, but the compression is worse and quality lower
	07:43, 5 May 2018	4,450 × 5,874 (5 MB)	Crisco 1492 (talk \| contribs)	Reverted to version as of 13:46, 25 February 2015 (UTC); previous version was bigger and less compressed
	12:07, 15 May 2016	4,390 × 5,852 (1.59 MB)	CFCF (talk \| contribs)	higher
	13:46, 25 February 2015	4,450 × 5,874 (5 MB)	Crisco 1492 (talk \| contribs)	Original res
	02:14, 5 February 2014	2,819 × 3,722 (1.43 MB)	P. S. Burton (talk \| contribs)	from the Met
	10:41, 31 October 2012	1,466 × 1,993 (782 KB)	Soerfm (talk \| contribs)	Brightness
	16:32, 26 June 2008	1,466 × 1,993 (679 KB)	Cybershot800i (talk \| contribs)	better
	06:29, 16 December 2004	596 × 800 (154 KB)	Didactohedron~commonswiki (talk \| contribs)	''Portrait of Monsieur Lavoisier and his Wife'' by Jacques-Louis David {{PD-art}}