 Not long after, probably sometime in 1787, David painted a full-length double portrait of Paulze and her husband, foregrounding the former.Paulze's artistic training enabled her not only to document and illustrate her husband's experiments and publications (she even depicted herself as a participant in two drawings of her husband's experiments) but also, for example, to paint a portrait of Benjamin Franklin, one of the many scientific thinkers that she hosted in her salons.Later Paulze's ties with David were severed due to the radical politics of the latter in the context of the French Revolution.