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Artist in the Global Art Registry
Jacques-Louis David
1748–1825 · French
- Born
- 1748 · Paris
- Died
- 1825 · Brussels
88 works in the Collect24 Registry
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Jacques-Louis David was a French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered the preeminent painter of his era. His history painting marked a change in taste away from Rococo frivolity toward classical austerity, severity, and heightened feeling.
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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. 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 many pupils, making him the strongest influence in French art of the early 19th century, especially academic Salon painting. David's career spans six different political regimes in France. He was a prolific artist and produced imagery that has entered the collective imagination. Famous paintings include The Death of Marat, Napoleon Crossing the Alps and The Coronation of Napoleon.
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Registered works
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Featured works
Selected registered works by Jacques-Louis David
Selected from 88 works by Jacques-Louis David in the Collect24 Registry.
Jacques-Louis David
The Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of His Sons, 1787
Pen and black ink and gray wash
32.7 × 42.1 cm
J. Paul Getty Museum
C24-212839
Jacques-Louis David
Phryne before Her Judges, c. 1816–20
black chalk on wove paper discolored to beige
13.3 × 19.6 cm
Cleveland Museum of Art
C24-208463
Jacques-Louis David
Paris and Helen, 1786
Pen and black ink and brush and gray wash
18.3 × 22.9 cm
J. Paul Getty Museum
C24-203217
Jacques-Louis David
Portrait of the Sisters Zénaïde and Charlotte Bonaparte, 1821
Oil on canvas
129.5 × 100.6 cm
J. Paul Getty Museum
C24-137767
Jacques-Louis David
Portrait of Suzanne Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau, 1804
Oil on canvas
60.3 × 49.5 cm
J. Paul Getty Museum
C24-136988
Jacques-Louis David
The Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis, 1818
Oil on canvas
88.3 × 103.2 cm
J. Paul Getty Museum
C24-136461
Jacques-Louis David
Schulwandbild "In der Französischen Revolution kämpft der Dritte Stand gegen die absolute Königsherrschaft (1789)", 1790-1791
Folie; Karton
Mitte Museum/Bezirksamt Mitte von Berlin
C24-400089
Jacques-Louis David
Portrait of André-Antoine Bernard, called Bernard de Saintes, July 24, 1795
Pen and black ink and brush and gray wash over graphite, heightened with white opaque watercolor, on paper
J. Paul Getty Museum
C24-206707
Jacques-Louis David
Schulwandbild "Napoleon gibt sich und seiner Gemahlin die Kaiserwürde auf Lebenszeit (1804)", 1805-1807
Folie; Karton
Mitte Museum/Bezirksamt Mitte von Berlin
C24-184184
Jacques Louis David
Civil Garb of the French Citizen, 1794
Etching
30.5 × 17.5 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-1143704
Jacques Louis David
Civil Garb of the French Citizen, 1794
Etching
30.8 × 18 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-1143703
Jacques-Louis David
Gods and Goddess, fourth quarter 1700s or first quarter 1800s
pen and black ink
13.2 × 21.3 cm
Cleveland Museum of Art
C24-1130617
Museums and collections
Where works by Jacques-Louis David are registered
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, United States
24 works
- Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, United States
23 works
- Musée Carnavalet
Paris, France
10 works
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
7 works
- J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
6 works
- Department of Paintings of the Louvre
France
5 works
- Mitte Museum/Bezirksamt Mitte von Berlin
Germany
2 works
- National Gallery of Art
Washington, D.C., United States
2 works
- Petit Palais
Paris, France
2 works
- Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Antwerp, Belgium
2 works
- Victoria and Albert Museum
London, United Kingdom
2 works
- Kunsthistorisches Museum
Austria
1 work
- National Gallery
United Kingdom
1 work
- SMK – National Gallery of Denmark
Copenhagen, Denmark
1 work
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