Charlotte David

Marguerite-Charlotte David (born Marguerite-Charlotte Pécoul) (1764–1826) was the French wife of the painter Jacques-Louis David.

She was born in Paris to Charles-Pierre Pécoul, the superintendent of Royal buildings, and his wife Marie-Louise, née l'Alouette.

Marguerite-Charlotte was roughly half the age of her husband when they married on 16 May 1782. They had four children: Charles Louis Jules David (born 19 February 1783), François Eugène David (born 27 April 1784), and the twin daughters Laure Émilie Félicité David and Pauline Jeanne David (born 26 October 1786).

In 1784 Jacques-Louis David painted pendant portraits of his parents-in-law. By that time David-Pécoul's birth mother had died, and her father had married his second wife Geneviève Jacqueline, née Potain, who was the sister of the architect Nicolas Marie Potain. The portraits were possibly painted on the occasion of this second marriage: