Neocassical Painter Sir Laurens Alma Tadema

Jacques-Louis David

1748 Paris (F) - 1825 Brussels (B)
French Neoclassical Painter

This page forms a 'collection' of the paintings of Jacques-Louis David. Reason should be clear :-) I have only shown those pieces of his work which have (some) connection to my love for antiquity. So this is by no means a try to encapsulate all the work of this extremely important painter. Some of his drawings and paintings do not have a classical background, but are heavily influenced by them. During the French Revolution the influence of the history of the Roman Republic was immense. Therefore I included them. Have fun !

Jacques-Louis David was a highly influential 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 a classical austerity and severity, heightened feeling chiming 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 I. It was at this time that he developed his Empire style, notable for its use of warm Venetian colours. David had a huge number of pupils, making him the strongest influence in French art of the early 19th century, especially academic Salon painting.

All Paintings can be enlarged by clicking on them !

text source, plus for more information : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques-Louis_David

	1770's
1771 Combat of Mars and Minerva	1773 Death of Seneca	1773 Sorrow	1777 Minerva
1777 View of the Tiber and Castel St Angelo	1778 Hector
	1780's
1780 Patroclus	1781 Belisarius Begging Alms	1782 Grief of Andromache	1783 Andromache Mourns Hector
1785 Three Horatii Brothers	1784 Oath of the Horatii	1784 Oath of the Horatii (detail 1)	1784 Oath of the Horatii (detail 2)
1787 Death of Socrates	1788 Paris and Helen	1789 Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons
	1790's
1790 Brutus	1791 Deputies swearing oaths	1791 Oath in the Tennis Court (tryout)	1791 Oath of the Tennis Court
1794 Homer Reciting his Verses to the Greeks	1794 Representative of the People on Duty
1799 Intervention of the Sabine Women		1799 Intervention of the Sabine Women (detail 1)	1799 Intervention of the Sabine Women (detail 2)
	1800's
1800 Madame Récamier	1809 Sappho and Phaon
	1810's
1814 Leonidas at Thermopylae	1814 -Leonidas at Thermopylae (detail)	1817 Cupid and Psyche	1818 Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis
	1820's
1824 Mars Disarmed by Venus and the Three Graces	1824 Mars Disarmed by Venus and the Three Graces (detail)
	Of Unknown Date