Jacques-Louis David was a French painter, born August 30, 1748, in Paris, and died December 29, 1825, in Brussels, Belgium, where he lived in exile after Napoleon's fall. He is regarded as the most celebrated French artist of his day and the principal figure of Neoclassicism, defining the movement's severe linear style and morally serious classical subjects as a deliberate reaction against the Rococo he had trained within. David's Oath of the Horatii, shown at the 1785 Salon, became Neoclassicism's defining statement and was read as an allegory of civic duty on the eve of the French Revolution, during which David served briefly as its artistic director, painting its leaders and martyrs including The Death of Marat. Napoleon Bonaparte named him court painter in 1804, and David produced the era's most enduring propagandistic images of the emperor.
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Painted by Jacques-Louis David, 1805-1807.
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Jacques-Louis David was a French painter, born August 30, 1748, in Paris, and died December 29, 1825, in Brussels, Belgium, where he lived in exile after Napoleon's fall.
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Jacques-Louis David (French: [ʒaklwi 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.
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The Portrait of Antoine and Marie-Anne Lavoisier (French: Portrait d'Antoine et Marie-Anne Lavoisier) is a double portrait of the French chemist Antoine Lavoisier and his wife and collaborator Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze, commissi
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Bonaparte Crossing the Alps (sometimes called Napoleon Crossing the Alps, which is also the title of Jacques-Louis David's better-known version of the subject) is an 1848-1850 oil painting by French artist Paul Delaroche. The pain
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The Loves of Paris and Helen is a 1788 oil-on-canvas painting by the French Neoclassical artist Jacques-Louis David, showing Helen of Troy and Paris from Homer's Iliad.
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The Last Moments of Michel Lepeletier, The Death of Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau or Lepeletier on his Deathbed was a 1793 painting by the French artist Jacques-Louis David.
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