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 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 ...

Jacques Louis David, “Reclining Male Nude” (1775–77), red chalk, 15 3/8 x 24 2/4 inches. Private collection, France. Art historian Phillip Bordes devotes a great deal of attention to David ...

Jacques-Louis David was a French Old Masters artist who was born in 1748. Their work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento. Numerous key galleries and ...

Jacques Louis David’s ‘Portrait of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier and Marie Anne Lavoisier ... ‘Roaring: Art, Fashion, and the Automobile in France, 1918-1939’ Review: ...

Art A master of propaganda, artist Jacques Louis David helped sell Frenchmen on the Revolution. New drawings exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art documents the artist’s creative process ...

Jacques-Louis David’s Napoleon Crossing the Alps is one of the most famous and politically iconic images of European art history. However, it is a deepfake. In a Neoclassicist masterpiece painted on ...

“Jacques-Louis David: Radical Draftsman,” a momentous and deadly serious exhibition opening this week at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, assembles more than 80 works on paper by this prime ...

Jacques-Louis David was one of art history’s great propagandists. His lifetime (1748-1825) overlapped with the last days of France’s Ancien Régime, the Revolution and the Terror, the rise and ...

Jaques-Louis David's "The Death of Marat." Born to a wealthy Parisian family, Jacques-Louis David was aged seven when his father was shot dead in a pistol duel.