File:1799-Verninac-David.jpg

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Summary

Artist



Description	French painter
Date of birth/death	30 August 1748	29 December 1825
Location of birth/death	Paris	Brussels
Work period	Neoclassicism
Work location	Paris, Rome, Brussels
Authority control	WorldCat

Title

Madame Raymond de Verninac

Description

Madame Raymond de Verninac (Portrait of Madame de Verninac), born Henriette Delacroix, elder sister of Eugène Delacroix. Signature: “David fecit anno Septimo” (David did this in the year seven – i.e. of the French revolutionary calendar).

Date

1799

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

H. 1.45 m (4 ft. 9 in.), W. 1.12 m (3 ft. 8 in.)

Current location

( Inventory) Louvre Museum

	Native name	Musée du Louvre
	Location	Paris
	Coordinates	48° 51′ 37.42″ N, 2° 20′ 15.36″ E
	Established	1793
	Website	www.louvre.fr
	Authority control	WorldCat

Department of Paintings, Sully, 2nd floor, room A

Accession number

RF 1942-16

Credit line

Carlos de Beistegui bequest, subject to a prior life interest, 1942; entered the collections in 1953

Notes

An example of the strongly Classical-influenced continental European high fashion of the late 1790's and first years of the 1800's.

References

Joconde database: entry 000PE000830

Source/Photographer

Scanned by H. Churchyard

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