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 ...

“Jacques-Louis David,” the Louvre’s exhibition marking the bicentennial of the artist’s death, is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to see the greatest works of the artist who defined French art from ...

A landmark exhibition of drawings at the Met brings us into the studio of the French Revolution’s chief propagandist, and stages the ultimate showdown of culture and politics. By Jason Farago You are ...