Jacques-Louis David (1748 – 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 and severity and heightened feeling, harmonizing with the moral climate of the final years of the Ancien Régime.
David later became an active supporter of the French Revolution and friend of Maximilien Robespierre (1758–1794), and was effectively a dictator of the arts under the French Republic. Imprisoned after Robespierre's fall from power, he aligned himself with yet another political regime upon his release: that of Napoleon, The First Consul of France. At this time he developed his Empire style, notable for its use of warm Venetian colours. After Napoleon's fall from Imperial power and the Bourbon revival, David exiled himself to Brussels, then in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, where he remained until his death. David had a large number of pupils, making him the strongest influence in French art of the early 19th century, especially academic Salon painting.
David later became an active supporter of the French Revolution and friend of Maximilien Robespierre (1758–1794), and was effectively a dictator of the arts under the French Republic. Imprisoned after Robespierre's fall from power, he aligned himself with yet another political regime upon his release: that of Napoleon, The First Consul of France. At this time he developed his Empire style, notable for its use of warm Venetian colours. After Napoleon's fall from Imperial power and the Bourbon revival, David exiled himself to Brussels, then in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, where he remained until his death. David had a large number of pupils, making him the strongest influence in French art of the early 19th century, especially academic Salon painting.
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| Mr Jacques-Louis David self-portrait |
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| 1791, Self-Portrait |
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| 1768, Jupiter et Antiope |
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| 1772, Diana and Apollo Piercing Niobe’s Children with their Arrows |
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| 1774, Antiochus and Stratonica |
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| 1774-75, Mademoiselle Guimard as Terpsichore |
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| 1778, Hector's body |
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| 1780, Mlle Ducreux |
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| 1780, Patroclus, study |
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| 1780, Young Woman with a Turban |
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| 1781, Equestrian portrait of Stanisław Kostka Potocki |
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| 1783, Portrait of Alphonse Leroy |
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| 1784, Genevieve Jacqueline Pecoul, the painter’s mother-in-law |
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| 1784, Oath of the Horatii |
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| 1786, Oath of the Horatii (second version) |
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| 1787, The Death of Socrates |
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| 1788, Paris and Helen |
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| 1788, Portrait of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and his wife |
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| 1789, The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons |
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| 1790, Portrait of Anne-Marie-Louise Thélusson, Comtesse de Sorcy |
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| 1793, The Death of Marat |
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| 1794, Homer Reciting his Verses to the Greeks |
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| 1794, The Representative of the People on Duty |
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| 1795, Portrait of a young girl |
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| 1795, Portrait of Pierre Sériziat |
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| 1797, Portrait of General Bonaparte |
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| 1798, Portrait of a young woman in white |
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| 1798-99, Portrait of Madame de Verninac |
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| 1799, The Intervention of the Sabine Women (detail) |
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| 1799, The Intervention of the Sabine Women |
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| 1800, Madame Récamier |
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| 1800, Portrait Of Mme ReCamier (Detail) |
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| 1801,Napoleon crossing the alps |
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| 1804, Portrait Of Suzanne Le Pelletier De Saint Fargeau |
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| 1804, Serment de l'armée fait à l'Empereur après la distribution des aigles |
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| 1804, Suzanne Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau |
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| 1804, The Coronation of the Napoleon and Joséphine in Notre-Dame Cathedral (detail) |
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| 1805, Portrait of Pope Pius VII |
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| 1806, The Coronation of Napoleon |
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| 1809, Sappho and Phaon |
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| 1810, Portrait of Countess Daru |
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| 1812, Laure-Emilie-Felicite David, La Baronne Meunier |
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| 1812, The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries |
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| 1813, Marguerite-Charlotte David |
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| 1816, Étienne-Maurice Gérard |
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| 1816, Portrait of the Comte de Turenne |
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| 1816, The Comtesse Vilain XIIII and Her Daughter |
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| 1817, Cupid and Psyche |
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| 1817, Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès |
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| 1818, The Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis |
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| 1821, The Sisters Zénaïde and Charlotte Bonaparte |
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| 1823, Madame Jacques-Louis Leblanc (Françoise Poncelle) |
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| 1825, The Anger of Achilles |
