Portrait of Madame Récamier
Portrait of Madame Récamier is an 1800 portrait of the Parisian socialite Juliette Récamier by Jacques-Louis David showing her in the height of Neoclassical fashion, reclining on a Directoire style sofa in a simple Empire line dress with almost bare arms, and short hair "à la Titus." The work is unfinished.
Portrait of Madame Récamier
Portrait of Madame Recamier, at the Louvre Museum
Le salon de Madame Récamier à l'Abbaye-aux-Bois
Bust of Juliette Recamier, Joseph Chinard, 1801
Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélaïde Récamier, known as Juliette, was a French socialite whose salon drew people from the leading literary and political circles of early 19th-century Paris. An icon of neoclassicism, Récamier cultivated a public persona as a great beauty, and her fame quickly spread across Europe. She befriended many intellectuals, sat for the finest artists of the age, and spurned an offer of marriage from Prince Augustus of Prussia.
Portrait by François Gérard, 1805 (detail), Paris, Carnavalet Museum
Portrait of Madame Récamier by Jacques-Louis David (1800, Louvre)
Portrait by François Pascal Simon, Baron Gérard, 1802
Bust by Joseph Chinard, 1803