David’s original painting of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier and his wife depicted the couple as self-indulged nobles rather than liberal leaders of science. Met conservator Dorothy Mahon performs ...
In 1788, Jacques Louis David painted a full-length double portrait of the chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier and Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze Lavoisier, his wife and scientific collaborator, casting ...
Jacques-Louis David's The Death of Marat is a deceptively simple image of a real-life murder. But a closer look at the iconic ...
Portrait of the Sisters Zénaïde and Charlotte Bonaparte, 1821, Jacques-Louis David. Oil on canvas, 51 × 39 5/8 in. The J. Paul Getty Museum, 86.PA.740. Awkwardly embracing on the corner of a plush red ...
The exhibition at the Paris museum brings together around a hundred works, paintings and drawings, including some on loan ...
Known as the ‘Father of the French School’ and the ‘regenerator of painting’, Jacques-Louis David created images that still haunt our collective imagination today: Marat Assassinated, Bonaparte ...
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 ...
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