David, Jacques Louis

His wife, Marie-Anne, studied drawing with the great painter Jacques-Louis David in order to transcribe her husband s laboratory notes and illustrate them. David s ravishing portrait of the Lavoisiers hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The son of Marie-Anne s longtime lover founded the E. I. Du Pont de Nemours Corporation in Delaware. Marie-Anne later married the American physicist, Benjamin Thomson. Later ennobled as the Count of Rumford, Thomson demonstrated the mechanical nature of heat. Marie-Anne had an excellent eye for scientific talent. 

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier and his wife Marie-Anne Pierrette, nee Paulze, the father figure (joined by a mother figure) of modem chemistry. Painted in 1788 by Jacques-Louis David. 

Jacques-Louis David, Portrait of Lavoisier and His Wife, 1788 91... 

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Lavoisier with his wife, painted in 1788 by Jacques Louis David. ( 1986 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, purchase, Charles Wrightsman Gift, honor of Everett Faky, 1977)... 

FIGURE 208. Madame Lavoisier was instructed in painting by the famous artist Jacques Louis David. This is a photo of the oil portrait she painted of her close friend Benjamin Franklin. See color plates. (Courtesy of a relative of Benjamin Franklin.)... 

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