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Civil Garb of the French Citizen
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Civil Garb of the French Citizen

Jacques Louis David | baron Dominique Vivant Denon

1794

Medium

Etching

Tags

MenPortraitsChairs

Dimensions

image: 12 x 6 7/8 in. (30.5 x 17.5 cm) plate: 13 7/16 x 8 1/4 in. (34.2 x 21 cm) sheet: 15 3/4 x 9 9/16 in. (40 x 24.3 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Jacques Louis David

1748–1825 • France

David was considered the most influential painter of the Neoclassical movement in France, characterized by a style of austere and ethical painting that reflects the moral climate of the last years of the ancien régime. He became an active revolutionary and worked for the new French Republic. He was then attracted to Napoleon I and developed an Empire style marked by warm Venetian color. Following the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in 1816, David went into exile in Brussels. He had a large number of pupils, and his influence was felt by the majority of French 19th-century painters. His compositional innovations were a break with the existing Rococo fantasy. Comment on works: Portraits: History.

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