Portrait of Marguerite-Charlotte David (1813). Jacques-Louis David (French, 1748-1825). Oil on canva
Portrait of Marguerite-Charlotte David (1813). Jacques-Louis David (French, 1748-1825). Oil on canvas. National Gallery of Art, Washington.The painting represents the wife of the artist. In Napoleonic Paris David and his wife were hardly a splendid or striking couple. The English novelist Fanny Burney called Madame David ‘a woman of no sort of elegance … and if she ever possessed any beauty, it had deserted her at an early period,’ but in compensation she was clever, shrewd and penetrating, yet prone to sarcasm. -- source link
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