a painting of a man with dark skin tone repairing a shoe, against a background of blue and yellow with other shoes and tools
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART JOURNAL | VOLUME 57

"A Tale of Two Chapeaux: Fashion, Revolution, and David’s Portrait of the Lavoisiers"

Chrisman-Campbell, Kimberly
2022
18 pages
12 illustrations
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The Metropolitan Museum Journal is issued annually and publishes original research on works of art in the Museum’s collection. Highlights of volume 57 include essays on a crimson velvet “cloth of gold” associated with the Tudor dynasty; an exquisite pair of malachite torchères commissioned by the Russian Demidov family; and a drawing on muslin by Matȟó Nážiŋ detailing the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876.

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836), Jacques Louis David  French, Oil on canvas
Jacques Louis David
1788
Bronze statuette of Tyche (Good Fortune), Bronze, Roman
Roman
1st century CE
Marie Rinteau, called Mademoiselle de Verrières, François Hubert Drouais  French, Oil on canvas
François Hubert Drouais
1761

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