Wall Street Journal

Science in the Shadow of the French Revolution

In 1788, Jacques Louis David painted a full-length double portrait of the chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier and Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze Lavoisier, his wife and scientific collaborator, casting ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Iconic Portrait of French Chemist and His Wife Once Looked Entirely Different

Jacques-Louis David’s 1789 painting originally depicted Antoine and Marie Anne Lavoisier as wealthy elites, not modern scientists Nora McGreevy Correspondent Jacques-Louis David, Antoine Laurent ...
Artnet

Conservators at the Met Have Discovered a Hidden Composition Under Jacques Louis David’s Portrait of a Famed Chemist

David’s original painting of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier and his wife depicted the couple as self-indulged nobles rather than liberal leaders of science. Met conservator Dorothy Mahon performs ...
Hyperallergic

David’s Painting of Eminent Scientists Depicted Them as More Elite Than Revolutionary

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Los Angeles Times

A chemistry experiment in a time of chain reactions

Antoine Lavoisier (1743-94) was a -- possibly even the -- founding father of the chemical revolution: a Washington, a Jefferson or a Franklin. (Lavoisier in fact knew Benjamin Franklin, whose portrait ...
C&EN

Lavoisier's Legacy

LAVOISIER IN THE YEAR ONE: The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution, by Madison Smartt Bell, Norton/Atlas, 2005, 214 pages, $22.95 (ISBN 0-393-05155-2) Antoine Lavoisier concurred with the ...