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Jacques-Louis David Prints
About Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David was a French painter, born in Paris in 1748, who died in Brussels in 1825. He studied with the history painter Joseph-Marie Vien and at the Royal Academy's school, and in 1774 he won the Prix de Rome, which took him to Italy. During the French Revolution he sided with Robespierre's Jacobins, was elected to the National Convention in 1792 and voted for the execution of Louis XVI. He later became painter to Napoleon, and he spent his final years in Brussels.
David was the leading painter of Neoclassicism, a style that looked back to ancient Greece and Rome for clear forms and serious moral stories. The Oath of the Horatii (1784), painted in Rome and shown at the Paris Salon of 1785, made his name. The Death of Socrates (1787) is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and The Death of Marat (1793) mourns a revolutionary leader murdered in his bath. His pupils included Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres.
Jacques-Louis David prints: reproductions of history paintings and portraits by the French Neoclassical painter Jacques-Louis David, made between 1769 and 1824. The collection includes Napoleon Crossing the Alps (1800), The Death of Socrates (1787), The Intervention of the Sabine Women (1799), Leonidas at Thermopylae (1814) and Cupid and Psyche (1817).
This selection covers both sides of David's work. One side is large scenes from ancient history, myth and his own time, including The Death of Marat (1793) and the late mythological pictures painted in Brussels, such as Mars Being Disarmed by Venus (1824). The other is portraits, among them Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and Marie-Anne Lavoisier (1788), Madame de Pastoret and Her Son (1791) and the Bonaparte sisters Zénaïde and Charlotte (1821).
The large history scenes suit living rooms, studies and offices, hung above a sofa or desk; the portraits fit dining rooms, libraries and hallways. All prints are museum-quality reproductions, available unframed or framed with acrylic glazing, with free shipping and import duties covered.
