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 ...

The Palace of Versailles has agreed to reexamine the origins of a prized Jacques-Louis David sketchbook after new research revealed evidence that the object was looted by the Nazis during World War II ...

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, "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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Jacques-Louis David,” the Louvre’s exhibition marking the bicentennial of the artist’s death, is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to see the greatest works of the artist who defined French art from ...

Several years ago, the conservation lab at the Metropolitan Museum of Art received a painting by the 18th Century French artist, Jacques Louis David. The task was to simply remove varnish to make the ...