Portrait of Madame Récamier
1800 · Oil on canvas · Musée du Louvre, Paris
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About this work
- Artist
- Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825)
- Year
- 1800
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 174 × 244 cm
- Collection
- Musée du Louvre, Paris
- Movement
- Neoclassicism
Juliette Récamier, the celebrated hostess of the Directory, reclines barefoot on a Pompeian-style daybed in a plain white dress, looking back over her shoulder at the viewer across an almost empty room furnished with a single bronze lamp stand. She was twenty-three when David began the portrait in 1800; the sittings dragged, she grew impatient and commissioned a rival portrait from his pupil Gérard, and David, offended, put the canvas aside unfinished. The thin paint, the bare floor and the long diagonal of the sofa were the result, and the picture is now prized precisely for its restraint. The daybed itself became known as a récamier. The painting stayed in David's studio until his death and was bought for the Louvre in 1826.
This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
A young woman in white reclining on a pale daybed in an empty grey room, a calm, spare composition for a bedroom, living room or dressing room at 24×36 in natural wood. Warm white, stone or soft grey walls keep its quiet; pair it with La Grande Odalisque.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Neoclassicism painting
- Era
- 18th century (1800)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cream & beige
- Mood
- intimate
- Rooms
- living room, bedroom, dining room, dorm room, hallway or entryway
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 24×36. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. Exhibition posters sit best in a slim black frame with no mat — the typeset margin is the mat.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
The Madten promise
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
