Jacques Louis-David

Jacques Louis David (French, 1748–1825). The Death of Socrates, 1787. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1931 (31.45) | Accused by the Athenian government of denying the gods and corrupting the young through his teachings, Socrates was offered the choice of renouncing his beliefs or dying by drinking a cup of hemlock. David shows him prepared to die and discoursing on the immortality of the soul with his grief-stricken disciples.

The Three Horatii Brothers — Jacques-Louis David (1785)

This is one of my FAVORITE paintings....Jacques Louis David- Coronation of Napoleon/Crowning of Josephine

Madame Recamier by Jacques Louis David, 1800

Jacques Louis David, Oedipus and the Sphinx. Art Experience NYC www.artexperiencenyc.com/social_login/?utm_source=pinterest_medium=pins_content=pinterest_pins_campaign=pinterest_initial

Oath of the Horatti, c. 1784, Jacques Louis David...takes me back to classic art 101 10yrs ago

DAVID, Jacques-Louis Andromache Mourning Hector 1783 Oil on canvas, 275 x 203 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris

Jacques Louis David (French, 1748–1825). Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and His Wife (Marie-Anne-Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836), 1788. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman Gift, in honor of Everett Fahy, 1977 (1977.10).

Napleon Crossing the Alps by Jacques-Louis David (1801, the Malmaison version)