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Jacques-Louis David

120 works

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Painting of a young woman in a white turban and gray dress, gazing upward against a dark background.

Young Woman with a Turban

c. 1780

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 a seated man writing at a red-draped table beside a standing woman in white, with laboratory instruments nearby.

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758-1836)

1788

Full-length portrait of a standing officer in dark blue uniform with medals, holding a letter and plumed hat before red drape

General Étienne-Maurice Gérard (1773-1852)

1816

Oil sketch of two children's heads with dark curly hair and loose brushwork against a muted brown background.

Head of a Child

Painting of two women on a red sofa, one in black velvet and one in grey silk holding a letter, both wearing jeweled tiaras.

Portrait of the Sisters Zénaïde and Charlotte Bonaparte

1821

Half-length oil portrait of a woman with dark curly hair in a white blouse and black shawl against a dark background.

Portrait of Suzanne Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau

1804

Painting of a woman in a pink gown embracing a young man with a spear in a dark rocky setting, with a white dog beside him.

The Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis

1818

Oil study of Roman interior with lictors, grieving women in white and red drapery, columns, and a seated bearded man.

The Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of his Sons. Study

Neoclassical painting of grieving women in a draped interior as lictors carry bodies in the background.

Lictors bring to Brutus the bodies of his sons

Seated man in red papal robes and white skullcap in a gilded chair, holding a document, against a dark background.

Portrait of Pope Pius VII

1805

Oil portrait of a man in a dark blue uniform with gold epaulettes, medals, and a sword hilt against a brown background.

Comte Henri-Amédée-Mercure de Turenne-d'Aynac

1816

Half-length self-portrait of a man with curly hair in a red cloak and white cravat, holding a palette and brushes.

Self-portrait

1794

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

Painting of a slumped, bloodied man in a white turban holding a letter, beside a wooden crate with French inscription.

The Death of Marat

1775

Painting of a seated man writing with a quill beside a woman in white, with chemistry apparatus on a red-draped table.

Portrait of Monsieur de Lavoisier and his Wife, chemist Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze

1788

Painting of a dead man with a white turban in a bath, with a chest wound, a letter, and a wooden crate inscribed À MARAT, DAV

The Death of Marat

1793

Equestrian portrait of a young man in a blue sash on a grey horse, with a dog and a stone wall behind.

Equestrian Portrait of Stanisław Kostka Potocki

1781

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

Oath of the Horatii

1784

Half-length portrait of a man with grey hair, white cravat and brown coat, looking directly at the viewer.

Self-portrait with three collars

1791

Painting of a plumed-helmeted warrior centered among nude and draped soldiers with wreaths, before a temple and rocky cliffs.

Leonidas at Thermopylae

1814

Painting of nude winged Cupid and sleeping Psyche reclining on a gilded bed with red drapery and a dusk landscape.

Cupid and Psyche

1817

Painting of a helmeted warrior turned from a bearded king, with a woman in a flower wreath and a crowned woman behind them.

The Anger of Achilles

1819

Painting of a robed emperor on a dais gesturing to soldiers raising eagle standards beneath red drapery and a crowd of courti

The Army takes an Oath to the Emperor after the Distribution of Eagles, 5 December 1804

1810

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

The Death of Seneca

1773

Large history painting of a crowned ceremony in a church interior, with a kneeling woman in white robes and clergy and courti

The Coronation of Napoleon

1807

Seated elderly man in brown coat with gold buttons and white powdered hair, resting arm on red chair against dark background.

Portrait de Charles-Pierre Pecoul

1784

Oil portrait of a seated woman in black dress with red sash and headband, leaning on a blue-upholstered chair against a grey

Portrait of the Marquise d'Orvilliers

1790

Seated woman in white gown and gold shawl beside a gilded chair, against a dark background, in a neoclassical portrait.

Portrait of Madame de Verninac

1799

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

Oil portrait of a seated woman in a lace bonnet with orange ribbons, pink satin dress and pearls, resting on a wooden desk.

Portrait de Geneviève Jacqueline Pécoul

1784

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