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Jacques-Louis David

[French Neoclassical Painter, 1748-1825]

• Relationships: Studied under Joseph Marie Vien.
David's students included Ingres, Antoine-Jean Gros, Jean Baptiste Isabey, Victor Schnetz, Sophie Rude, Louis-Léopold Robert and Francois Gerard.
• Subject matter:  Specializes in History Painting.
• Browse all:  French artists
 


 
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Original works by Jacques-Louis David available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
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Many works by Jacques-Louis David online

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
4 works by Jacques-Louis David

Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
An academy study of a male nude, 1764

Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Sappho and Phaon, 1809

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
6 works online by David

Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German)  

Jacques-Louis David at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Leonidas at Thermopylae, pen and ink drawing, 1813

Jacques-Louis David at the Louvre Museum, Paris
The Intervention of the Sabine Women, 1799

Jacques-Louis David at the Louvre Museum, Paris
The Oath of the Horatii, 1784

Jacques-Louis David at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Madame Récamier, 1800

Jacques-Louis David at the Louvre Museum, Paris
The Funeral of Patroclus, pen and ink drawing, 1778

Jacques-Louis David at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Napoleon Crowning Himself Emperor before the Pope, pencil drawing, 1805

Jacques-Louis David at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Study for The Oath of the Horatii, black chalk drawing, 1784

Jacques-Louis David at the Louvre Museum, Paris
The Intervention of the Sabine Women, drawing, 1794

Louvre Museum, Paris
Madame Charles-Louis Trudaine, 1791-92

Louvre Museum Database, Paris (only available in French)
13 paintings

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  
5 works by Jacques-Louis David online

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  
The Death of Camilla, black chalk drawing

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas  
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  
Drawings collection online

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
4 works by Jacques-Louis David

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Portrait of Alphonse Leroy, ca.1783

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa  
Pierre Sériziat
Presumed Portrait of Jean-Baptiste-Robert Lindet


National Gallery, London, UK
Portrait of Jacobus Blauw
Portrait of the Vicomtesse Vilain XIIII and her Daughter


Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Anne-Marie-Louise Thélusson, Comtesse de Sorcy, 1790

Réunion des Musées Nationaux, France (in French)  
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About 15 works displayed over 3 pages of search results

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Portrait of Jacques-François Desmaisons, 1782

Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Jacques-Louis David: Empire to Exile

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Study after the Sabine Statue from the Villa Medici

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Young Woman with a Turban
Cupid and Psyche
The Prisoner


Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Cupid and Psyche

Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
3 works by or related to the artist

Flemish Art Collection Database (in Dutch)  

Frick Collection, New York City
Comtesse Daru, 1810

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts   NEW!

Haus der Kunst, Munich (mostly in German)  
Anne-Marie-Louise Thélusson, Comtesse de Sorcy, 1790

Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)  

Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
The Anger of Achilles

Le Musée Ingres, Montauban, France (in French)  
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Museo Napoleonico, Rome (in Italian)  
Zenaide e Carlotta, 1820

National Gallery of Victoria, Australia

New Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen
Portrait of the Comte de Turenne, 1816

Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna   NEW!
Napoleon at St. Bernard Pass, 1801

Philadelphia Museum of Art
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2 works by Jacques-Louis David online

Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
Andromache Lamenting Hector, 1783

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)  
3 works online

Samuel H. Kress Foundation Collection

San Diego Museum of Art, California
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Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana
Portrait of The Baroness Jeamn And Her Daughter, chalk drawing, 1821

State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy

The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas

Timken Museum of Art, San Diego, California
Portrait of Mr. Cooper Penrose

Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio
The Oath of the Horatii
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Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  

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Web Gallery of Art  

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Wikimedia Commons Image Database  

Artyst, Peintures du Monde (in French)  

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Boston College Fine Arts Department

Brian Yoder's Art Gallery and Critic's Corner

California State University WorldImages Database  

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)  

Humanities Web  

ImageNETion

Olga's Gallery

PBase Photo Sharing
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The Art Canvas
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6 works viewable in the archive

USC Annenberg School for Communication

 
Other Web Sites:
Art Museum Image Consortium
Cupid and Psyche

Beloit College Department of Classics
Andromache Mourning Hector, 1783
Hector's Corpse, 1778

Beloit College Department of Classics
Helen and Paris

Beloit College Department of Classics
Anger of Achilles at Aulis, 1819

Beloit College Department of Classics
Mars Disarmed by Venus and the Three Graces, 1824

Carleton University Art History Dept.
The Death of Socrates, 1787

Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation

Rocbo Culture (in French)  
Geometric analysis of David's The Sabine Women (click "retour" to see more works analyzed)

The Age of Enlightenment in the Paintings of France's National Museums
The Oath of the Horatii

The Modernist Journals Project   NEW!

 
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Jacques-Louis David
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Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info

The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Marie Antoinette Led to Her Execution, 1793

  
 
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Jacques-Louis David: Napoleon Bonaparte Crossing the Alps
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Jacques-Louis David: Unfinished portrait of General Bonaparte
Unfinished portrait of General Bonaparte


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Rape of the Sabine Woman
Rape of the Sabine Woman


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David: Napoleon Crossing the Alps (detail)
Napoleon Crossing the Alps (detail)


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David: The Sabine Women
The Sabine Women


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Portrait of Madame Raymond de Verninac 1798-99
Portrait of Madame Raymond de Verninac 1798-99


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Jacques-Louis David: Oath of the Horatii
Oath of the Horatii

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