Jacques-Louis David
Subtitle: Empire to Exile (Clark Art Institute)
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: February 28, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780300123463
Subjects: Exhibition catalogues and specific collections; History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; Individual artists; Art; Art & Art Instruction; France; Criticism; European; History - General; Art / General; Individual Artist
First sentence: ON 4 AUGUST 1795 the famous painter Jacques-Louis David, former president of the National Convention, the "house of representatives" to which he had been elected deputy by the Parisians in the fall of 1792, was allowed to go home after a confinement of several months in prison.