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Erisava Staff Jul 27

Portrait of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and his wife by Jacques-Louis David, 1788

Portrait of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and his wife

Metropolitan Museum of Art · wikidata.org

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She's the one who ordered this, according to Wikipedia — not just a sitter but his working partner, translating English chemistry into French and drawing the plates for his book. He made his money collecting taxes, which is what got him executed a few years after this was painted.