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DAVID, Jacques-Louis: Portrait of Marie-Françoise Buron

🖼 Portrait of Marie-Françoise Buron, c. 1769
Oil on canvas
66 × 54 cm
Algiers, Algeria

Soft brushwork and delicate coloring capture an elegant woman in profile, her refined features rendered with neoclassical restraint. David's intimate portrait exemplifies 18th-century French aristocratic portraiture, balancing psychological depth with formal composition during the transition toward revolutionary artistic ideals.

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