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Jacques-Louis David

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Painting of Socrates in a stone prison cell, raising a finger as a young man holds a cup while mourning companions gather.

The Death of Socrates

1787

Painting of armored soldiers and women with infants amid a battle before a fortified city with spears and horses.

The Intervention of the Sabine Women

1799

Neoclassical painting of three brothers raising swords in a colonnade while grieving women sit to the right.

Oath of the Horatii

1784

Painting of an elderly man dying in a basin surrounded by mourning women, soldiers and classical columns.

The Death of Seneca

1773

Painting of a stern seated Roman man as lictors carry in bodies while grieving women gather near a red-draped table.

The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons

1789

Neoclassical painting of a seated nude man playing a lyre beside a draped woman in a classical interior with blue drapery.

Paris and Helen

1788

Woman in white dress reclining on a gold daybed beside a tall lamp stand, against a dark wall.

Portrait of Madame Récamier

1800

Painting of a nude young male lying face down on the ground with eyes closed, soft wooded landscape behind him.

The death of young Bara

1794

Sketch of many nude male figures in a crowd, some embracing and some with arms raised, drawn in brown tones.

The Jeu de Paume Oath

1790

Painting of an elderly man in a bath surrounded by grieving women, attendants and soldiers beside classical columns.

La Mort de Sénèque

1773

Crowded hall of men raising arms in oath, with a central standing figure and spectators in galleries above, painted in dark t

Serment du Jeu de paume, le 20 juin 1789

1791

Neoclassical painting of a seated beggar and child receiving alms from a veiled woman beside Roman columns, with a soldier be

Belisarius Begging for Alms

1784

Painting of a reclining male nude on a stone ledge with a golden drape, against a dark background.

Académie d´homme, Hector

1778

Painting of Minerva pointing at a fallen Mars on a battlefield, with a chariot, soldiers and cherubs above.

Lille Pdba david minerve mars

1771

Painting of a crowd of men in period clothing with raised arms in a large hall, spectators in galleries above.

Tennis Court Oath

1750

Painting of a classical funeral with a body on steps beside a log pyre, mourners, warriors, chariots and ships in the distanc

The Funeral of Patroclus

1778

Painting of Apollo and Diana firing arrows from clouds at fallen figures, with a central woman raising her arm skyward.

Apollo and Diana attacking the Children of Niobe

1772

Oil portrait of a seated man in a pink coat and blue headwrap writing with a quill, beside a brass microscope and books.

Portrait of Doctor Alphonse Leroy

1783

Grey wash drawing of a classical interior with lictors carrying bodies, a grieving seated man, and kneeling women beneath col

The Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of His Sons

1787

Grey wash drawing of a villa with a square tower, arcaded wing, and shrubs in the foreground under a pale sky.

Villa in the Campagna

1775-80

Graphite drawing of a reclining classical figure with bare feet and drapery resting on a cushioned base.

Hermaphrodite

ca. 1780 or ca. 1810

Pencil sketch of draped figures in a colonnaded classical interior, with a seated man at left and a group at right.

Study for The Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of his Sons

ca. 1788

Grey wash drawing of a chaotic ancient battle with chariots, horses and warriors, with gods watching from clouds above.

The Combat of Diomedes

1776

Pen and wash drawing of nude helmeted soldiers with shields and raised weapons advancing together in a crowded group.

Nude Soldiers Gesticulating with Their Weapons (recto); Two Drapery Studies for the Figure of Tatius (verso)

1796/97

Grey wash drawing of an older man in draped robes pulling away from a kneeling woman clinging to his arm.

The Departure of Marcus Attilius Regulus for Carthage

1785/86

An Antique Sculpture of a Horse

1780

Grey wash drawing of a columned classical building and pines above a foreground of Roman rooftops and a tall tower.

The Roman Circus near Santa Croce in Gerusalemme

1775/1780

Two Studies of the Head of a Young Man Crowned with a Laurel Wreath

1775/1780