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Marie-Guillemine Benoist's Portrait of Madeleine (formerly known as Portrait of a Negress) hangs today in the Louvre in a gallery devoted to paintings by Jacques-Louis David and his students. It is placed at the center of a wall displaying seven portraits, a location that asserts its importance. This painting was exhibited at the Salon of 1800. It was praised by the public and the critics for the purity of the drawing and the skill of the coloring combined with a plastic strength lacking in the earlier portraits, achieved by the faithful application of David’s aesthetic.