The Louvre celebrates the French master—who painted for Louis XVI before morphing into an ardent revolutionary and then a ...

Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) was France's greatest artist of his generation—a generation trampled by the French Revolution and then by Napoleon. David acted out the raging contradictions of the ...

David’s original painting of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier and his wife depicted the couple as self-indulged nobles rather than liberal leaders of science. Met conservator Dorothy Mahon performs ...

85 x 132 cm. (33.5 x 52 in.) The present work depicts the death of Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger (c.4 BC-65 AD) as described by Tacitus in the Annals (XV, 60-64). Emperor Nero, who stands on the ...

“Jacques-Louis David Meets Kehinde Wiley” at the Brooklyn Museum: installation view; photo: Jonathan Dorado (all images courtesy the Brooklyn Museum) In a grand decorated, nicely theatrical gallery, ...

In a case of movies imitating art, and art imitating life (or some jumble along those lines), Jacques-Louis David’s monumental history painting depicting the moment Napoleon Bonaparte was publicly ...

Portrait of the Sisters Zénaïde and Charlotte Bonaparte, 1821, Jacques-Louis David. Oil on canvas, 51 × 39 5/8 in. The J. Paul Getty Museum, 86.PA.740. Awkwardly embracing on the corner of a plush red ...

Several years ago, the conservation lab at the Metropolitan Museum of Art received a painting by the 18th Century French artist, Jacques Louis David. The task was to simply remove varnish to make the ...

“Napoleon” costume designers divvied up their tasks, with Janty Yates concentrating on French civilian wear and David Crossman on evolving military outfits. The Ridley Scott epic follows Napoleon ...

Left: Marc Chagall, “La Tour Eiffel” (1929, image courtesy Christie’s, property of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, sold to benefit the Acquisitions Fund); right: Jacques-Louis David, “Saint ...

The Met acquired it as a work by Jacques-Louis David. It was by a little-known woman. So much to love about this painting. The exquisitely simple white dress, for starters. (Who doesn’t love those ...