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Biography of Jacques-Louis DavidFrench Neoclassical painter and draftsman born 30 April 1748 - died 29 December 1825 Born in: Paris (Département de Ville de Paris, Ile-de-France, France). Died in: Brussels (Bruxelles, Belgium) Student of: Francois Boucher (1703-1770), Joseph-Marie Vien (1716-1809) Masterpieces: The Raft of the Medusa, Death of Marat, The Oath of the Horatii, Napoleon Crossing the Alps. |
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Teacher of:
Jean Auguste Dominique
Ingres (1780-1867), |
In the French drama an unimaginative imitation of ancient models had long prevailed; even in Jacques-Louis David art Poussin and Le Sueur were successful by expressing a bias in the same direction; and in the first years of the revolutionary movement the fashion of imitating the ancients even in dress and manners went to the most extravagant length. At this very time David returned to Paris; Jacques-Louis David was now painter to the king, Louis XVI, who had been the purchaser of principal his paintings such as The Raft of the Medusa, Death of Marat, The Oath of the Horatii, Napoleon Crossing the Alps, and his popularity was soon immense. At the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789, Jacques-louis David was carried away by the flood of enthusiasm that made all the intellect of France believe in a new era of equality and emancipation from all the ills of life. | |||||||
The success of his sketch for Jacques-Louis David art the Oath of the Tennis Court, and his pronounced republicanism, secured his election to the Convention in September 1792, by the Section du Museum, and the artist quickly distinguished himself by the defense of two French artists in Rome who had fallen into the merciless hands of the Inquisition. As, in this matter, the behavior of the authorities of the French Academy in Rome had been dictated by the tradition of subservience to authority, be used his influence to get it suppressed. In the January following his election into the Convention his vote was given for the king's death. |
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It is difficult for a generation which has witnessed another complete French revolution in the standards of artistic taste to realize the secret of his immense popularity in his own day. His style is severely academic in works The Raft of the Medusa, Death of Marat, David Horatii, Napoleon Crossing the Alps, his color lacking in richness and warmth, his execution hard and uninteresting in its very perfection. Subjects and treatment alike are inspired by the passing fashion of an age which had deceived itself into believing that it was living and moving in the spirit of classical antiquity. | ||||||
The inevitable reaction of the romantic movement made the masterpieces, which had filled the men of the French Revolution with enthusiasm, seem cold and lifeless to those who had been taught to expect in art that atmosphere of mystery which in nature is everywhere present. Yet Jacques-louis David was a great artist, and exercised in his day and generation a great influence. His paintings are magnificent in their composition, such as The Raft of the Medusa, David Death of Marat, The Oath of the Horatii, Napoleon Crossing the Alps. , and their draughtsman ship; and his keen observation and insight into character are evident, especially in Jacques louise David portraits, notably of Madame Recamier, of the Conventional Gerard and of Boissy d'Anglas. |