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After
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The Louvre gallery discovered by
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because of some evidence found in Salon entries seem to indicate it was hers, however David's name did not come off of the frame until 1977. Sterling's reattribution of the painting to
Charpentier was also based on analysis of her painting,
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of the Met admitted that the painting may not have been David's. Sterling was first tipped off that the painting was not David's because the artist had boycotted the 1801 Salon. The mistake was published in the Met's
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when she was married. Bridget Quinn describes the painting as a moment where "two young women longing to make art found themselves in a brief period of opportunity, when instruction, exhibition and even fame were possible."
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wrote of the painting in 1964, "Although the painting is extremely attractive as a period piece, there are certain weaknesses of which a painter of David's calibre would not have been guilty."
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said that it was "a perfect picture, unforgettable." Critical response to the work prior to attributing the work to
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effect, the view of the scene outside as to be seen as only partly through glass." The room depicted in the painting is actually a gallery of the
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wrote that the picture "does not seek to charm, nor does it seek to portray the sexual vitality of its sitter" and felt that it was a
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