The Palace of Versailles will investigate the origins of a Jacques-Louis David sketchbook that was found to have been looted ...

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 ...

David’s original painting of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier and his wife depicted the couple as self-indulged nobles rather than liberal leaders of science. Met conservator Dorothy Mahon performs ...

Jacques-Louis David was in exile in Belgium when he turned to erotic mythology Jacques-Louis David was one of art history’s great propagandists. His lifetime (1748-1825) overlapped with the last days ...

Several years ago, the conservation lab at the Metropolitan Museum of Art received a painting by the 18th Century French artist, Jacques Louis David. The task was to simply remove varnish to make the ...

In 1788, Jacques Louis David painted a full-length double portrait of the chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier and Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze Lavoisier, his wife and scientific collaborator, casting ...

Portrait of the Sisters Zénaïde and Charlotte Bonaparte, 1821, Jacques-Louis David. Oil on canvas, 51 × 39 5/8 in. The J. Paul Getty Museum, 86.PA.740. Awkwardly embracing on the corner of a plush red ...

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“Napoleon” costume designers divvied up their tasks, with Janty Yates concentrating on French civilian wear and David Crossman on evolving military outfits. The Ridley Scott epic follows Napoleon ...

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