my metropolitan museum debut

On October 24th, my painting Todd and Kathy for David was featured in the ticketed talk, Égalité? Women as Artists and Patrons in an Age of Revolution, the 4th installment of Kathryn Galitz’s 6-part series Fraternité: French Artists from Revolution to Romanticism—A Lecture Series at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Though my Met debut did not technically involve one of my pieces hanging on a wall, my painting was indeed projected to larger-than-life scale alongside its compositional inspiration, Jacques-Louis David’s Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and His Wife (Marie-Anne-Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836), 1788, to modernized comical effect.

Jacques-Louis David, Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and His Wife (Marie-Anne-Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836), 102 1/4” x 76 5/8”, Oil on Canvas, 1788

Michael Hambouz, Todd and Kathy (for David), 30”x40”, Acrylic on Canvas, 2012