Jacques Louis David, "The Oath of the Tennis Court" (1791). pen and brown ink, pen and black ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white, over black chalk, with two irregularly shaped fragments ...
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 ...
The career of Jacques Louis David, who came of age as an artist on the eve of the French Revolution, is often mapped in his history paintings that line the walls of the Louvre’s Grande Galerie. In ...
Jacques-Louis David, Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836), 1788 Metropolitan Museum of Art Conservator Dorothy Mahon first noticed ...
In 1791, the French painter Jacques Louis David made a large, meticulously detailed drawing for a painting he never produced, called “The Oath of the Tennis Court.” It depicts a key moment from the ...
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 ...
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