Jacques-Louis David
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Jacques-Louis David Life: 1748-1825 (1) Country: Style(s): Neoclassicism Works: Oath of the Horatii (1784-85) The
The
Death of Marat (1793) Portrait of Pierre Sériziat (1795)
Portrait of Madame de Verninac, née Henriette Delacroix, Sister of Eugène Delacroix(1799)
Sappho and Phaon (1809) Quote: “In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered,
and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself. To give a body and a perfect form to
one's thought, this – and only this – is to be an artist.” (3) Fun Fact: He was elected to the National Convention and the Committee
of Public Safety (1). He was also the
painter of the Revolution and an ardent supporter of Napoleon (2).
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David was the foremost painter of the French Revolution, so much that he became known as the
painter of the French Revolution (2). You are ecstatic that you are going to get to meet him.
When you first open the door, you are surprised. He doesn’t look the way you had expected—a strong, masculine
man; instead, he has a scrawny body topped by a narrow, feminine face with soft, straight hair. But that doesn’t make
him any less of the great man he is. He immediately invites you in and awes you with his stories from the French Revolution.
He tells you about when he was elected to the National Convention and the Committee of Public Safety (1) and he also tells
you all about Napoleon. He is now a very ardent supporter of Emperor Napoleon (2). You ask about Chucky but he evades the
question, making you promise to allow him to give you a tour of his home before even discussing the subject of the squirrel.
You see his infamous paintings The Tennis Court Oath and Death of Marat which depict events you can only dream about. Finally, once the
tour is over,
you sit down and he starts to tell you about French portrait painters. He tells you that they are a very tight-knit group
and that they all know everything that is going on since they are able to invade the upper echelons of society as long as
they have enough skill and imagination to make the real members of that upper echelon look good in a portrait. He tells you
about Drouais, his favorite student and good friend (5). Drouais is a reasonably
well known French portrait painter and David suggests that he might have a better idea of where to find Chucky (4).
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