Portrait of Charlotte du Val d'Ognes is an 1801 painting (portrait painting) attributed to Marie-Denise Villers. It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[1] The painting was first acquired by the museum in 1922 and attributed to Jacques Louis David. Later, the painting was attributed to Constance Marie Charpentier and finally to Villers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_of_Charlotte_du_Val_d'Ognes

During the time when the picture was presumed to be David's, it was assumed that the woman in the painting was his student, drawing him as he painted her. Andre Maurois said that it was "a perfect picture, unforgettable."

After Sterling admitted the picture may not be David's, he called it a "merciless portrait of an intelligent, homely woman." Other critics suddenly found faults in the portrait, now that it was no longer considered a David and ascribed to Charpentier instead.

Haha! But seriously, get bent old school critics.

And how is she homely? They just throw that in for some extra shade?