The career of Jacques Louis David, who came of age as an artist on the eve of the French Revolution, is often mapped in his history paintings that line the walls of the Louvre’s Grande Galerie. In ...

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 ...

Neoclassicism is having a moment. Long regarded as the most predictable and least admired of the grand movements of Western art, it is turning out to be full of surprises. In 2023, Antonio Canova, the ...

In a case of movies imitating art, and art imitating life (or some jumble along those lines), Jacques-Louis David’s monumental history painting depicting the moment Napoleon Bonaparte was publicly ...

85 x 132 cm. (33.5 x 52 in.) The present work depicts the death of Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger (c.4 BC-65 AD) as described by Tacitus in the Annals (XV, 60-64). Emperor Nero, who stands on the ...

Jacques-Louis David was in exile in Belgium when he turned to erotic mythology Jacques-Louis David was one of art history’s great propagandists. His lifetime (1748-1825) overlapped with the last days ...