Jacques-Louis David (Parigi 1748 - Bruxelles 1825)... Lot n° 77

Jacques-Louis David (Paris 1748 - Brussels 1825) workshop of Manly nude Oil on canvas 95 x 68.5 cm Among the many examples, comparisons with the figures appearing in the canvases The Sabine Women and Leonidas at Thermopylae, preserved in the Louvre, are interesting. He was, along with Antonio Canova and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres a leading exponent of the neoclassical current in European art between the 18th and 19th centuries. Of petit-bourgeois origins, he trained in Joseph-Marie Vien's atelier. In 1769 he won third prize at the Prix de quartier, and thanks to this he participated in the Prix de Rome. Between 1775 and 1780 he resided in Rome, where he deepened his studies of ancient sculpture and where he became so fascinated by Renaissance and Baroque painting, especially Raphael, that his style was shaped in a neoclassical key. He was an ardent revolutionary and pictorially sang the deeds of Napoleon. His art was epoch-making, and the École de David was in use as early as the early 19th century, considering both his direct pupils and the painters in his circle to belong to it, among them: Jean-Germain Drouais, Antoine-Jean Gros, François Gérard, Anne-Louis Girodet, Jean-Baptiste Isabey, Jean-Pierre Franque, Jérôme-Martin Langlois, and Jean-Baptiste Joseph Wicar. Jacques-Louis David (Paris 1748 - Brussels 1825) workshop of. Male Nude Oil on canvas 95 x 68.5 cm Among the many examples, the comparisons with the figures that appear in the paintings The Sabine Women and Leonidas at Thermopylae, preserved in the Louvre, are interesting.