Jacques-Louis David was a highly influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the prominent painter of the era. In the 1780s his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste away from Rococo frivolity toward a classical austerity and severity, chiming 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, … Wikipedia
...DAVID, Jacques-Louis French painter (b. 1748, Paris, d. 1825, Bruxelles) Early paintings (until the Salon of 1783) Paintings between 1784 and 1792 ... www.wga.hu/html/d/david_j/index.html
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