Jacques-Louis David

Jacques-Louis David

Jacques-Louis David (French: [ʒaklwi 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 and severity and heightened feeling, harmonizing with the moral climate of the final years of the Ancien Régime. David later became an active supporter of the French Revolution and friend of Maximilien Robespierre (1758–1794), and was effectively a dictator of the arts under the French Republic. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacques-Louis David has received more than 2,099,175 page views. His biography is available in 81 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 79 in 2019). Jacques-Louis David is the 31st most popular painter (up from 36th in 2019), the 60th most popular biography from France (up from 70th in 2019) and the 8th most popular French Painter.

Jacques-Louis David was a French painter and sculptor in the Neoclassical style. He was a leading artist in the early 19th century, and is best known for his large historical paintings, including Oath of the Horatii, Death of Socrates, and The Sabine Women.