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Long attributed to Jacques-Louis David, the preeminent Neoclassical painter of his day, the 1801 painting Marie Josephine Charlotte du Val d'Ognes gained fresh attention in the 1990s when art historians discovered that the painting—which depicts a solitary young woman sketching—was actually the work of little-known French portrait _____ Marie-Denise Villers (1774-1821).