Jacques-Louis David

1748–1825 · France · Neoclassicism

Jacques-Louis David (30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) was a French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s, his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste away from Rococo frivolity toward classical austerity, severity, and heightened feeling, which harmonized with the moral climate of the final years of the Ancien Régime. Wikipedia

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Severe Neoclassical clarity: statuesque figures in a shallow stage-like space, crisp outlines, smooth finish and heroic Roman or Napoleonic subjects.

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“The Death of Marat”, 1793 — Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
“The Oath of the Horatii”, 1784 — Louvre
“Napoleon Crossing the Alps”, 1801 — Rueil-Malmaison
“The Coronation of Napoleon”, 1807 — Louvre
“The Death of Socrates”, 1787 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“The Intervention of the Sabine Women”, 1799 — Louvre
“Portrait of Madame Récamier”, 1800 — Louvre
“The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons”, 1789 — Louvre
“Leonidas at Thermopylae”, 1814 — Louvre
“The Tennis Court Oath”, 1791 — Palace of Versailles
“Belisarius Begging for Alms”, 1781 — Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille
“The Distribution of the Eagle Standards”, 1810 — Palace of Versailles
“Sappho and Phaon”, 1809 — Hermitage Museum
“Mars Being Disarmed by Venus”, 1824 — Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
“The Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis”, 1818 — J. Paul Getty Museum
“The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries”, 1812 — Samuel H. Kress Collection
“Portrait of Count Stanislas Potocki”, 1780 — National Museum in Warsaw
“Portrait of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and his wife”, 1788 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Paris and Helen”, 1788 — Louvre
“The Death of Seneca”, 1773 — Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris
“Andromache Mourning Hector”, 1782 — Beaux-Arts de Paris
“The Anger of Achilles”, 1819 — Kimbell Art Museum
“Cupid and Psyche”, 1817 — Cleveland Museum of Art
“The Fight Between Mars and Minerva”, 1771 — Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture
“Erasistratus Discovering the Cause of Antiochus' Disease”, 1774 — Beaux-Arts de Paris
“The death of young Bara”, 1794 — Calvet Museum
“Unfinished Portrait of General Bonaparte”, 1797 — Louvre
“Marie Antoinette Being Taken to Her Execution”, 1793 — Louvre
“Portrait of Pope Pius VII”, 1805 — Louvre
“Psyche Abandoned”, 1795
“The Funeral of Patroclus”, 1778 — National Gallery of Ireland
“Self-portrait”, 1794 — Louvre
“Les derniers moments de Michel Lepeletier”, 1793
“Portrait of Madame Marie-Louise Trudaine”, 1794 — Louvre
“Apollo and Diana Attacking the Children of Niobe”, 1772 — Dallas Museum of Art
“Portrait of Madame de Verninac”, 1799 — Louvre
“Portrait of Pierre Sériziat”, 1795 — Louvre
“Apelles Painting Campaspe in the Presence of Alexander the Great”, 1814 — Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille
“Patroclus”, 1780 — Musée Thomas-Henry
“Portrait of Madame Adélaide Pastoret”, 1791 — Art Institute of Chicago

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