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Shelfmark: Madame Lavoisier - DavidPrivate collection - Heirs (Paris France) Suggestions & Corrections  
Type: painting
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Thematic group: Iconography of Lavoisier  Documents on and by Madame Lavoisier 
Type: portrait
Abstract: Self portrait of Madame Lavoisier
Comment: Grimaux confines himself to write that this pastel portrays “M.lle Paulze enfant”. An intriguing hypothesis, based on an oral tradition, suggests that “le petit pastel serait un autoportrait réalisé avec l’aide de David qui donnait à M.lle Paulze des leçons de dessin.” (private communication by Jean de Rohan Chabot, February 10, 1999). If this is the case Madame Lavoisier must have had David as a teacher when the painter was beginning his career at the Vien’s atelier. Since it is obvious that at some stage in her education Madame Lavoisier took drawing’s lessons it is plausible that David had been her first tutor.
 
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name: Jacques Louis David
resp.: supervisor
name: Paris
date/range: 1770
date of: manufacture
epoch: 18 (2°)
name: Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze Lavoisier
resp.: author
name: Paris
date/range: 1770
date of: manufacture
epoch: 18 (2°)
name: Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze Lavoisier
resp.: portrayed
name: Paris
date/range: 1770
date of: manufacture
epoch: 18 (2°)

 
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Madame Lavoisier David

 

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