Keywords: Jacques-Louis David - Portrait of an Elderly Lady - Walters 37392.jpg This starkly realistic portrait shows a strong-featured old woman dressed in her finery staring directly at the viewer In its candor the painting bears a striking resemblance to a celebrated family portrait The Three Women of Ghent now in the Louvre Museum Paris that was traditionally attributed to David who lived in exile in Brussels after his exile from France following the fall of Napoleon ca 1820 oil on canvas cm 64 8 54 ; framed cm 80 69 9 8 9 accession number 37 392 16585 Alexandre Dumas fils P A Chéramy Sale Paris May 7 1908 no 47 Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1908 From Ingres to Gauguin French Nineteenth Century Paintings Owned in Maryland Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore 1951 place of origin Walters Art Museum license 2D Circle of Jacques-Louis David 19th-century portrait paintings in the Walters Art Museum French paintings in the Walters Art Museum 1820s oil on canvas paintings in the United States Portrait 1820s paintings by Jacques-Louis David 1820s portrait paintings from France 19th-century oil portraits of sitting women at half length 1820c Females with blue ribbons in art Portrait paintings of old women 1820c Portrait paintings of women wearing white caps 1820c Three-quarter view portrait paintings of women facing right |