Question

François Gérard put a red curtain suspended between the columns of a loggia in the background of his portrait of this woman, whose body was replaced by a right-angled coffin in a 1951 René Magritte painting. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this Parisian socialite who was depicted in an Empire dress, looking over her shoulder at the viewer while reclining on a Directoire style sofa in an unfinished portrait by Jacques-Louis David.
ANSWER: Madame Récamier [or Juliette Récamier; or Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélaïde Récamier; accept Portrait of Madame Récamier]
[10e] Récamier's Empire dress and “à la Titus” hairstyle are hallmarks of this artistic movement led by David, which drew inspiration from Ancient Greece and Rome.
ANSWER: neoclassicism [or neoclassical art]
[10h] Another portrait of Récamier was completed by David's student Antoine-Jean Gros (GROH), who made his name with a 1796 painting of Napoleon leading troops to storm this title structure during a battle that took place that year.
ANSWER: Pont d'Arcole [or the bridge of/at/etc. Arcole; accept Bonaparte at the Pont d'Arcole or Bonaparte at the Bridge of Arcole]
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