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Portrait of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and his Wife
is a double portrait of the French chemist
Antoine Lavoisier
and his wife and collaborator
Marie-Anne
. Commissioned from the French painter
Jacques-Louis David
in 1788 for 7,000
livres
, the portrait remained in the family until 1924, when it was acquired by
John D. Rockefeller
. Since 1977, it has been held by the
Metropolitan Museum of Art
in New York.
Painting:
Jacques-Louis David
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