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ewa lajer-burcharth is Professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. She is the author ofNecklines: The Art of Jacques-Louis David after the Terror (Yale University Press, 1999) and of numerous articles on French eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art and visual culture. She is currently completing a book on the self and the private sphere in eighteenth-century art and culture. The current essay is part of a longer chapter in this book.