Jacques-Louis David
(French, 1748-1825)


Portrait of Mademoiselle Ducreux (1793).
Oil on canvas.
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen.

Rose Adélaïde Ducreux made her debut at the Louvre Salon in 1791, for which she submitted a portrait of a young woman and a life-size, full-length self-portrait in which she is depicted playing the harp.

David depicts Ducreux with her painterly tools as well as sheet music, as Dureux was an accomplished musician as well as painter.