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 ...

Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) was France's greatest artist of his generation—a generation trampled by the French Revolution and then by Napoleon. David acted out the raging contradictions of the ...

During the Covid-19 pandemic, we have heard a lot about doctors and healthcare workers, thinking of them as present-day heroes facing up to death.

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 ...