Eye Candy for Today: David double portrait

Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and His Wife, Jacques Louis David
Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and His Wife, Jacques Louis David

David’s portrait of the famous French chemist and his wife, Marie Lavoiser, née Marie-Anne-Pierrette Paulze, includes some of Antoine-Laurent Lavoiser’s experimental equipment.

Marie Lavoiser was a student of David’s, and illustrated treatises on her husband’s experiments with extensive, detailed drawings of his scientific equipment.

 
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