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Artist a Day:  JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID 

Artist a day! JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID (1748-1825)  Jacques-Louis David was a French artist who is best known for his dramatic, detailed paintings and historic, mythological scenes.

Patroclus

Jacques-Louis  Works

Oil on canvas, 121.5 x 170.4 cm, 1780

Jacques-Louis David is considered the main advocate of Neoclassical painters. His most famous pieces are 'The Death of Marat' And 'Napoleon Crossing the Alps'.

The Oath of Horatii

Jacques-Louis  Works

Oil on canvas, 330 x 425 cm, 1784

Lictors Bearing to Brutus the Bodies of his Sons

Jacques-Louis  Works

Oil on canvas, 323 x 422 cm, 1789

– Oath of the Horatii, 1784-1785. ... – Death of Marat, 1793. – Napoleon Crossing the Saint-Bernard.

Notable Work

– Le Premier consul franchissant les Alpes au col du Grand-Saint-Bernard (Napoleon Crossing the Alps) – The Consecration of the Emperor Napoleon and the Coronation of Empress Joséphine on December 2, 1804.

Notable Work

The Tennis Court Oath, 20th June 1789

Jacques-Louis  Works

pen, paper, 66 x 101.2 cm, 1791

The Consecration of the Emperor Napoleon and the Coronation of the Empress Josephine by Pope Pius VII, 2nd December 1804

Jacques-Louis  Works

Oil on canvas, 621 x 979 cm, 1807

Madame Recamier

Jacques-Louis  Works

Oil on canvas, 174 x 244 cm, 1800

"The artist must be a philosopher. Socrates the skilled sculptor, Jean-Jacques [Rousseau] the good musician, and the immortal Poussin, tracing on the canvas the sublime lessons of philosophy, are so many proofs that an artistic genius should have no other guide except the torch of reason."

Famous Quote by  Jacques-Louis David

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Arrow

Napoleon Crossing the Alps at the St Bernard Pass, 20th May 1800

Jacques-Louis  Works

Oil on canvas, 260 x 221 cm, c.1800 - 1801

Sorrow

Jacques-Louis  Works

chalk, paper, 53.5 x 41 cm, 1773

St. Roch Praying to the Virgin for an End to the Plague

Jacques-Louis  Works

Oil on canvas, 260 x 195 cmcm, 1780

To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.

Famous Quote by  Jacques-Louis David

The Pain of Andromache

Jacques-Louis  Works

Oil on canvas, 275 x 203 cm, 1783