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 ...

In the late 18th century, neoclassicism reawakened Europe’s fascination with the harmony and ideals of ancient Greece and Rome, offering a visual language of discipline and reason. Jacques-Louis David ...

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 ...