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Portrait of Laure-Émilie-Félicité David, the Baronne Meunier
Not on view
Celebrated as a painter of scenes from history and
literature, Jacques-Louis David was equally adept as a portraitist. Between
1810 and 1813, he undertook a series of family portraits, several of them—like
this one—abandoned unfinished. The subject is one of the artist’s twin
daughters, Laure-Émilie-Félicité, the Baronne Meunier (1786-1863), and the
picture’s format matches that of David’s likewise unfinished portrait of her
sister, Pauline (today displayed in the Sammlung Oskar Reinhart).
Laure-Émilie-Félicité appears as the young bride of an officer who served in
Napoleon’s military
campaigns in Egypt, Austria, and Spain, and who posed
for his own portrait by David (private collection).
- Artist
- Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825)
- Title
- Portrait of Laure-Émilie-Félicité David, the Baronne Meunier
- Date
- 1812
- Object Type
- Painting
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Overall: 28 5/8 x 23 3/4 in. (72.708 x 60.325 cm) Framed: 37 1/8 x 31 15/16 in. (94.298 x 81.121 cm)
- Credit Line
- Roscoe and Margaret Oakes Collection
- Accession Number
- 75.2.6