Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) and His Wife (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758-1836)
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Reveals the gendered division of labor in many scientific households. Antoine, seated, is at work on a chemistry treatise; his wife, Marie-Anne, takes a break from her drawing board to look over his shoulder. Whereas Antoine is famous for his experiments with oxygen, Marie-Anne made his work possible by translating foreign works, illustrating Antoine's treatises, and publicizing his discoveries.
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1788, oil on canvas, Metroplitan Museum of Art, New York, New York.
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08/01/2017
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David, Jacques Louis, “Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) and His Wife (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758-1836),” Legacies of the Enlightenment, accessed September 28, 2023, http://enlightenmentlegacies.org/items/show/80.