Jacques-Louis David Prints
1748–1825 · French · Neoclassicism
Wall art by Jacques-Louis David, restored in-house and printed to order on heavyweight matte fine-art paper.
16 prints · printed to order on heavyweight matte paper · framed or unframed
About Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David was born in Paris in 1748, the son of a cloth merchant who was killed in a duel when the boy was nine. He trained under Joseph-Marie Vien, won the Prix de Rome on his fourth attempt in 1774 and spent five years in Italy drawing antique sculpture and studying Caravaggio and Poussin. The Oath of the Horatii, shown in Rome and then at the Salon of 1785, made him the leader of the new severe style that would be called Neoclassicism: hard outlines, shallow stage-like space, Roman virtue over Rococo pleasure. In the Revolution he sat in the Convention, voted for the king's death, organised the great republican festivals and painted its martyrs, above all his murdered friend Marat. Imprisoned after the fall of Robespierre, he re-emerged as Napoleon's painter, recording the crossing of the Alps, the coronation and the emperor in his study. The Bourbon restoration drove him into exile in Brussels, where he died in 1825. His studio trained Gros, Girodet and Ingres.