Retrato de Antoine Lavoisier e Sua Mulher (Portrait of Monsieur de Lavoisier and His Wife, Chemist Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze) - Jacques-Louis David

Retrato de Antoine Lavoisier e Sua Mulher (Portrait of Monsieur de Lavoisier and His Wife, Chemist Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze) - Jacques-Louis David
Metropolitan Museum of Arts Nova York Estados Unidos
OST - 259x194 - 1788

This magnificent double portrait dates to 1788, when the artist was the standard-bearer of French Neoclassicism. For political reasons, Lavoisier was obliged to withdraw it from the 1789 Salon, and it was not exhibited for a century. Lavoisier was a chemist and famous for his pioneering studies of gunpowder, oxygen, and the chemical composition of water. In 1789 he published a chemistry textbook illustrated by his wife. Despite his services to both the monarchy and the revolutionary regime, he was guillotined.