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Leonidas at Thermopylae is an oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Jacques-Louis David. The work currently hangs in the Louvre in Paris, France. David completed the massive work (3.95 m × 5.31 m) 15 years after he began, working on it from 1799 to 1803 and again in 1813–1814. [1] Leonidas at Thermopylae was purchased, along with The ...
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. The Three Women of Gand: 1812 oil on canvas 132 × 105 Louvre Museum, Paris Portrait of Madame David: 1813 oil on canvas 73 × 60 National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Apelles Painting Campaspe in the Presence of Alexander the Great: 1814 oil on canvas 96.5 × 136 Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Lille ...
February 10, 1977. The Newark Museum of Art, formerly known as the Newark Museum, in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey is the state's largest museum. It holds major collections of American art, decorative arts, contemporary art, and arts of Asia (including a large collection of Tibetan art ), Africa, the Americas, and the ancient world.
Jacques-Louis David (French: [Ę’aklwi david]; 30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) was a French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s, his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste away from Rococo frivolity toward classical austerity, severity, and heightened ...
A Fish Sale on a Cornish Beach, 1884-85, Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery. A Fish Sale on a Cornish Beach is an oil-on-canvas painting by Stanhope Forbes depicting a fish auction on the beach near Newlyn. It was painted in 1884–85 and exhibited at the Royal Academy summer exhibition in 1885. The painting is now owned by the Plymouth City ...
The Tennis Court Oath (French: Le Serment du Jeu de paume) is an incomplete painting by the French Neoclassical artist Jacques-Louis David, painted between 1790 and 1794 and showing the titular Tennis Court Oath at Versailles, one of the foundational events of the French Revolution. Political reversals and financial difficulties meant that ...
385 cm × 522 cm (152 in × 206 in) Location. Louvre. The Intervention of the Sabine Women is a 1799 painting by the French painter Jacques-Louis David, showing a legendary episode following the abduction of the Sabine women by the founding generation of Rome. Work on the painting commenced in 1796, after his estranged wife visited him in jail.
Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels. Mars Being Disarmed by Venus is the last painting produced by the French artist Jacques-Louis David. He began it in 1822 (aged 73) during his exile in Brussels and completed it three years later, before dying in an accident in 1825. The work combines idealization with elements of realism.