vivelareine: Refashioning the Lavoisiers by Silvia A. Centeno, Dorothy Mahon, and David Pullin
vivelareine: Refashioning the Lavoisiers by Silvia A. Centeno, Dorothy Mahon, and David PullinsA team of experts from across The Met gains new understanding of Jacques Louis David’s iconic portrait.… Among the most spectacular findings was that, beneath the austere background, Madame Lavoisier had first been depicted wearing an enormous hat decorated with ribbons and artificial flowers. The red tablecloth was once draped over a desk decorated in gilt bronze and, perhaps most surprisingly, the scientific instruments that announce the couple’s place at the birth of modern chemistry—and so define the portrait today—were all the result of a later campaign that reworked how the Lavoisiers were presented. -- source link
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