Koning Lodewijk Napoleon de Sacre bijwonend
Jacques-Louis David
ca. 1805
Medium
paper
Dimensions
188; 91
About this artwork
monogram, recto, lower left, black chalk: ‘D’
About the Artist
Jacques-Louis David · 1748–1825
Jacques-Louis David, born on August 30, 1748, in Paris, emerged as the preeminent French painter of Neoclassicism, a movement emphasizing austere lines, moral clarity, and classical antiquity as antidotes to Rococo frivolity. Orphaned young after his father's death in a duel, he was raised by prosperous architect uncles and educated at the Collège des Quatre-Nations. Defying family expectations, D...