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Jacques-Louis David

1748 - 1825

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Jacques-Louis David (French: [ʒaklwi david]; 30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) was a French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s, his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste away from Rococo frivolity toward classical austerity, severity, and heightened feeling, which harmonized with the moral climate of the final years of the Ancien Régime. David later became an active supporter of the French Revolution and friend of Maximilien Robespierre (1758–1794), and was effectively a dictator of the arts under the French Republic. Imprisoned after Robespierre's fall from power, he aligned himself with yet another political regime upon his release: that of Napoleon, the First Consul of France. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jacques-Louis David is the 39th most popular painter (down from 34th in 2019), the 89th most popular biography from France (down from 75th in 2019) and the 10th most popular French Painter.

Jacques-Louis David was a French painter and sculptor in the Neoclassical style. He was a leading artist in the early 19th century, and is best known for his large historical paintings, including Oath of the Horatii, Death of Socrates, and The Sabine Women.

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Among painters, Jacques-Louis David ranks 39 out of 2,023. Before him are Amedeo Modigliani, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Jan van Eyck, Edgar Degas, and Masaccio. After him are Tintoretto, Gustave Courbet, Alphonse Mucha, Paolo Veronese, Nicolas Poussin, and Giuseppe Arcimboldo.

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Among people born in 1748, Jacques-Louis David ranks 1. After him are Jeremy Bentham, Charles XIII of Sweden, Charles IV of Spain, Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot, Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, Olympe de Gouges, Claude Louis Berthollet, Adam Weishaupt, Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, William V, Prince of Orange, and Johann Friedrich Gmelin. Among people deceased in 1825, Jacques-Louis David ranks 1. After him are Alexander I of Russia, Antonio Salieri, Daniel D. Tompkins, Henri de Saint-Simon, Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria, Eli Whitney, Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies, Pauline Bonaparte, Henry Fuseli, Jean Paul, and Dmitry Bortniansky.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques-Louis David ranks 89 out of 6,770. Before him are Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663), Tacitus (54), Jacques Cartier (1491), Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (1757), Irène Joliot-Curie (1897), and Pope Clement V (1264). After him are Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744), Louis de Broglie (1892), Louis Braille (1809), Jean-Paul Belmondo (1933), Louis de Funès (1914), and Gustave Courbet (1819).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Jacques-Louis David ranks 10. Before him are Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780), Paul Cézanne (1839), Paul Gauguin (1848), Édouard Manet (1832), Eugène Delacroix (1798), and Edgar Degas (1834). After him are Gustave Courbet (1819), Nicolas Poussin (1594), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864), Georges Braque (1882), Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684), and Jean-François Millet (1814).

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