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ARTIST: Jacques-Louis David (France, 1748-1825) & Jean-Honoré Fragonard (France, 1732-1806)

TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Marie-Madeleine Guimard as Terpsichore

TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas

DATE: 1775

DATE DETAILS: approx.

DIMENSIONS: 195.5 x 120.5 cm

COMMENTS: Guimard commissioned Fragonard to decorate her new house, in the rue Chaussée d'Antin, Paris. When Fragonard quarelled with her in 1773, he defaced his portrait of her. David was called to continue th

LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France

DANCE FORM: classical ballet

KEYWORDS: portrait