Jacques Louis David, "The Oath of the Tennis Court" (1791). pen and brown ink, pen and black ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white, over black chalk, with two irregularly shaped fragments ...
Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) was France's greatest artist of his generation—a generation trampled by the French Revolution and then by Napoleon. David acted out the raging contradictions of the ...
Jacques-Louis David, "The Death of Marat" (1793), oil on canvas (all photos Olivia McEwan/Hyperallergic) PARIS — The name Jacques-Louis David is almost synonymous with themes of revolution, French ...
"The Oath of the Horatii" (1784), by Jacques-Louis David. GRANDPALAISRMN/MICHEL URTADO/PARIS/MUSÉE DU LOUVRE Sébastien Allard, director of the Paintings Department at the Musée du Louvre, does not shy ...