Jacques-Louis David's facial abnormalities were traditionally reported to be a consequence of a deep facial sword wound after a fencing incident.

Jacques-Louis David was, in his time, regarded as the leading painter in France, and arguably all of Western Europe ; many of the painters honored by the restored Bourbons following the French Revolution had been David's pupils.

* Vaughan, William and Weston, Helen ( eds ), Jacques-Louis David's Marat, Cambridge ( 2000 )

Jacques-Louis David's Oath of the Horatii, 1784, with a scene from ancient history.

Exemplifying the French School are the early Avignon Pietà of Enguerrand Quarton ; the anonymous painting of King Jean le Bon ( c. 1360 ), possibly the oldest independent portrait in Western painting to survive from the postclassical era ; Hyacinthe Rigaud's Louis XIV ; Jacques-Louis David's The Coronation of Napoleon ; and Eugène Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People.

Beginning with Jacques-Louis David's painting The Oath of the Horatii ( 1784 ), an association of the gesture with Roman republican and imperial culture emerged through 18th century French art.

Cavaradossi studied art in Paris with Jacques-Louis David and lived in David's atelier during the French Revolution.

Neoclassicism in painting gained a new sense of direction with the sensational success of Jacques-Louis David's Oath of the Horatii at the Paris Salon of 1785.

The painter Jacques-Louis David's famous sketch, le Serment du jeu de paume (' the Tennis Court Oath ') now hangs in the court of the Palace of Versailles.

When Speed recalls his knowledge of French History, a rendition of Jacques-Louis David's painting of Napoleon Crossing the Alps, which depicts Napoleon riding Marengo, is drawn in the episode.

In 1800, Napoleon's army used the pass to enter Italy, an event depicted in Jacques-Louis David's Napoleon at the Saint-Bernard Pass and Hippolyte Delaroche's Bonaparte Crossing the Alps, both notable oil paintings.

Jacques-Louis David's painting The Oath of the Horatii ( 1784 ) provided the starting point for the gesture that became later known as the Roman salute.

Jacques-Louis David's painting The Oath of the Horatii ( 1784 ) provided the starting point for the gesture that became later known as the Roman Salute.

Jacques-Louis David's Andromache Mourning Hector was his reception offering in 1783 ; today it is in the collections of the Louvre Museum.

Jacques-Louis David's portrait of Madame Récamier.

The format suggests a children's book, but it contains enough allusiveness and advanced vocabulary to make it an unlikely read for a child: the entry for T quotes Blake's " The Tyger ," a seal is compared to Jacques-Louis David's portrait of Madame Récamier, and a braying donkey is described as " practicing solfeggio.

It marks a return to art history for him, treating eight artists through eight key works: Caravaggio's David with the Head of Goliath, Bernini's Ecstasy of St Theresa, Rembrandt's Conspiracy of Claudius Civilis, Jacques-Louis David's The Death Of Marat, J. M. W. Turner's The Slave Ship, Vincent van Gogh's Wheat Field with Crows, Picasso's Guernica, and Mark Rothko's Seagram Murals.

Above the grand staircase there is a reproduction of the first version of Jacques-Louis David's painting The Crowning of Josephine by Napoleon.

In this way he, by degrees, transferred from the shop window to his paper at home the chief figures from Jacques-Louis David's picture of Napoleon crossing the Alps, which, by particular request, he copied in bright colours as a frontispiece to a little schoolfellow's new prayer-book, for sixpence.

In the late 18th century, students in Jacques-Louis David's studio followed a rigorous program of instruction.

His most notable paintings include a copy of Jacques-Louis David's The Death of Marat ( 1793 ) and a series of works covering the life of the Virgin Mary, painted from 1810 – 1820 for the choir of the church of Notre-Dame de la Daurade in Toulouse.

The story is perhaps best known from Jacques-Louis David's painting The Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis, painted during David's exile in Brussels ( 1818 ), and now at the J. Paul Getty Museum.

At the start of the French Revolution in 1789, he was elected deputy to the States-General by the Third Estate of Vitry-le-François, and joined the National Assembly ( his portrait stands in the foreground in Jacques-Louis David's celebrated sketch of the Oath of the Tennis Court ).

Jacques-Louis David, Oath of the Horatii, 1784

Oath of the Horatii | The Oath of the Horatii ( 1784 ), by Jacques-Louis David

At one point, Jacques-Louis David, then composing his Oath of the Horatii ( 1784 ) at Rome, wished to take him to Paris.

Oath of the Horatii ( 1784 ), by Jacques-Louis David

Oath of the Horatii ( French: Le Serment des Horaces ), is a large painting by the French artist Jacques-Louis David painted in 1784 and now in the Louvre in Paris.

The Lictors Bring Home the Sons of Brutus by Jacques-Louis David ( 1784 ) Tiberius Junius Brutus ( d. ca.

The Lictors Bring Home the Sons of Brutus by Jacques-Louis David ( 1784 )

In 1789, Jacques-Louis David attempted to leave his artistic mark on the historical beginnings of the French Revolution with his painting of The Oath of the Tennis Court.

One of the most famous Imperial coronation ceremonies was that of Napoleon, crowning himself Emperor in the presence of Pope Pius VII ( who had blessed the regalia ), at the Notre Dame de Paris | Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. The painting by Jacques-Louis David | David commemorating the event is equally famous: the gothic cathedral restyled Empire ( style ) | style Empire, supervised by the Letizia Ramolino | mother of the Emperor on the balcony ( a fictional addition, while she had not been present at the ceremony ), the pope positioned near the altar, Napoleon proceeds to crown his then wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais as Empress.

History painting was the dominant form of academic painting in the various national academies in the 18th century, and for most of the 19th ; in France artists such as Henri Jean-Baptiste Victoire Fradelle, Antoine-Jean, Baron Gros, Jacques-Louis David, Ingres, Claude Joseph Vernet, Carle Vernet, Pierre-Narcisse Guérin were among the leading figures.

The neoclassicist Jacques-Louis David began his painting instruction under Boucher.

Coronation of Napoleon I on Sunday 2 December 1804, at Notre Dame, in a The Coronation of Napoleon | 1807 painting by Jacques-Louis David

Detail from the oil painting ( 1806-7 ) by Jacques-Louis David | David and Georges Rouget | Rouget

Joséphine wrote: " I wish that Malmaison may soon become the source of riches for all France "... Napoleon Crossing the Alps, a Jacques-Louis David painting from the Malmaison collection.

For example the painting of Jacques-Louis David which was seen as an attempt to return to formal balance, clarity, manliness, and vigor in art.

His murder was memorialized in a celebrated painting by Jacques-Louis David which shows Marat after Corday had stabbed him to death in his bathtub.

* Jacques-Louis David, painting

The Keith Warner-directed production was performed in 2011 in Bregenz, Austria, using an almost 78-foot high statue of a dying Jean-Paul Marat sinking in the water, an ode to the 1793 Jacques-Louis David painting, " The Death of Marat ," which depicts the murdered revolutionary slumped over in his bathtub.

By 1815, Jacques-Louis David, then in exile in Brussels, was both the leading proponent of the popular history painting genre, which he had perfected, and a master of the Neoclassical style.

" He also supported Napoleon and commissioned the painting The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries by Jacques-Louis David.

* A 1794 painting by Jacques-Louis David depicts the dying Bara.

He studied painting at Paris under Jean-Baptiste Regnault, Jacques-Louis David, and Antoine-Jean, Baron Gros, and later went to Rome, where he improved his French classical style of painting by the study of Italian art.