“O Bara! O Viala! The blood that you have spread still smokes; it rises toward Heaven and cries for vengeance.”
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Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David 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 feeling, which harmonized with the moral climate of the final years of the Ancien Régime.
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culture · French painter (1748–1825) · painter · politician · architectural drafter · also Jacques-Louis David, Jacques Louis David, J.-L. David, Lui David, Lu-i Ta-wei, Louis David
Born 30 August 1748 · Died 29 December 1825 · Q83155
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2026· 2 entries
“this [painting] is what is killing me”
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2025· 2 entries
Artnet: Jacques-Louis David Sketchbook at Versailles Linked to Wartime Theft
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Hyperallergic: Jacques-Louis David Knew That Style Is Political
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1989· 1 entry
During the "David against David" conference Albert Boime presented evidence, a document dated in 1787, showing the painter's membership in the "La Moderation" Masonic Lodge
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1948· 1 entry
His two-hundredth birthday was celebrated with an exhibition at the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris and at Versailles showing his life's works
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1882· 1 entry
To Brussels Cemetery, while some say his heart was buried with his wife at Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris
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1825· 1 entry
Died 1825-12-29.
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1819· 1 entry
And is now in the collection of the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas
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1815· 1 entry
Was promoted to a Commandant (now Commandeur) de la Légion d'honneur
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1804· 1 entry
David became the official court painter of the regime
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1794· 1 entry
Career landmark: President of the National Convention (1794–1794).
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1748· 1 entry
Born 1748-08-30.
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