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Jacques-Louis David Works Online
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Original works by Jacques-Louis David available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW! (There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
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 The Consecration of the Emperor Napoleon and the Coronation of Empress Joséphine on December 2, 1804, 1806-07
Jacques-Louis David at the Louvre Museum, Paris The Funeral of Patroclus
Jacques-Louis David at the Louvre Museum, Paris The Intervention of the Sabine Women, 1799
Jacques-Louis David at the Louvre Museum, Paris The Intervention of the Sabine Women, 1794
Jacques-Louis David at the Louvre Museum, Paris Leonidas at Thermopylae, 1813
Jacques-Louis David at the Louvre Museum, Paris Madame Charles-Louis Trudaine, 1791-92
Jacques-Louis David at the Louvre Museum, Paris Madame Récamier, 1800
Jacques-Louis David at the Louvre Museum, Paris Napoleon Crowning Himself Emperor before the Pope, 1805
Louvre Museum, Paris The Oath of the Horatii, 1784
Louvre Museum, Paris Study for The Oath of the Horatii, 1784
Louvre Museum Database, Paris 13 paintings
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French)  An enormous number of works on paper online
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW! Drawings collection online
National Gallery, London, UK Portrait of Jacobus Blauw Portrait of the Vicomtesse Vilain XIIII and her Daughter
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW! Includes a biography of the artist
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
Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany Anne-Marie-Louise Thélusson, Comtesse de Sorcy, 1790
Réunion des Musées Nationaux, France (in French)  About 15 works displayed over 3 pages of search results
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York Portrait of Jacques-François Desmaisons, 1782
Château de Versailles, France Bonaparte
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts Jacques-Louis David: Empire to Exile
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK 3 works by or related to the artist
Frick Collection, New York City NEW! Comtesse Daru
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Haus der Kunst, Munich (mostly in German)  Anne-Marie-Louise Thélusson, Comtesse de Sorcy, 1790
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas NEW!
Le Musée Ingres, Montauban, France (in French)  Click on the artist name, then on the artwork title to view the work
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota 
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, France (in French)  Portrait présumé de son geôlier
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Marseilles, France (in French)  Saint Roch intercedant pour la cession de la peste
Musee Magnin, Dijon, France
Museo Napoleonico, Rome The sisters Zenaide and Carlotta
Museum Collection Database for the Region of Haute-Normandie, France
New Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen Portrait of the Comte de Turenne, 1816
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh Jacques-Louis David
Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna Napoleon at St. Bernard Pass, 1801
Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Lille, France (in French)  Bélisaire demandant l'aumône
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
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
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
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
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen Click "English" at the top right to switch the default language, then click "Search"
Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands NEW! Works from the museum's drawings and engravings collection
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German) 
The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas
The Huntington Library, California
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
Timken Museum of Art, San Diego, California Portrait of Mr. Cooper Penrose
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio (Click the "European 1000-1900" category, then see the work in the second row of thumbnails)
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums Portrait of an unknown artist
Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch) 
Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch) 
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French) 
Art Market: (e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive (database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive (database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Google Art Project 5 works online
The Art Renewal Center
The Artchive 
The Athenaeum  5 works online
Web Gallery of Art 
WebMuseum 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Artliste Image archive with zoomable images
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  (a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
Boston College Fine Arts Department
California State University WorldImages Database 
CGFA 
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish) 
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish) 
Humanities Web 
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Olga's Gallery
PBase Photo Sharing (Tip: Set the image size to "original" to see photos at their highest resolution)
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW! Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
Art Museum Image Consortium Cupid and Psyche
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 (Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Jacques-Louis David  Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History 
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
Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide "This Deep, Great, and Religious Feeling": Delécluze on History Painting and David
The Guardian Newspaper, UK Essay on Marie Antoinette Led to Her Execution, 1793
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
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 Jacques-Louis David: Empire to Exile
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 Jacques-Louis David's 'Marat'
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 David (Art and Ideas)
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 Masters of Art: David
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