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 ...

In the vibrant cultural milieu of mid-18th-century Paris, Jacques-Louis David entered the world on August 30, 1748, born to a prosperous bourgeois family whose textile trade afforded early stability.

Jacques-Louis David: Revolutionary Artist, Politician and Prisoner He was gentle in family life and generous to his students, teaching pro bono to those who could not afford his fee, and being way ...

Jacques-Louis David, Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836), 1788 Metropolitan Museum of Art Conservator Dorothy Mahon first noticed ...