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Description: Portrait of Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France, led to execution

TitlePortrait of Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France, led to execution

Creator nameDavid, Jacques-Louis

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation date1793

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsPen and brown ink

Dimensions5 7/8 x 4 in. (14.8 x 10.1 cm)

LocationMusée du Louvre, Paris

https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl020537700

Accession number3599 DR/1 Front

SubjectsFrance--History--Revolution, 1789-1799Art--Political aspectsWomen--PortraitsExecutions and executioners in artNeoclassicism (Art)--France

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5. Paris: Savage Neoclassicism

Amelia Rauser

The Age of Undress: Art, Fashion, and the Classical Ideal in the 1790s

~In 1796, Jean-Louis Laneuville exhibited a prison portrait of Thérésa Tallien (fig. 145). It appeared in the second post-Thermidor Salon, reminding viewers of the...

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Amelia Rauser

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.165-185

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00338.11

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Chapter subject tags:Dress, NeoclassicalTallien, Thérésia Cabarrus, 1773-1835France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799AllegoriesExoticism in fashionRace identity

2: Blind Memories

Ewa Lajer-Burcharth

Necklines: The Art of Jacques-Louis David after the Terror

In the context of the crisis in the republican imaginary that I described in the previous chapter, how could history painting speak of the Revolution as a collective historical experience after Thermidor...

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Ewa Lajer-Burcharth

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.71-129

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00327.3

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Chapter subject tags:France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799Tennis Court Oath, Versailles, France, 1789David, Jacques Louis, 1748-1825Portraits, French--18th centuryArt and society--France--History--18th centuryPainting, French--19th centuryArt--Political aspects--France--18th centuryFrance--History--Reign of Terror, 1793-1794

1. Painting in the Year 2

T. J. Clark

Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism

Books about modernism tend to go in for inaugural dates. It all began in the 1820s, they say, or with Courbet setting up his booth outside the Exposition Universelle in 1855, or the year Madame Bovary and Les Fleurs du Mal were put on trial, or in room M of the Salon des Refusés. “An important component in historical sequences of artistic events,” writes George Kubler, “is an abrupt change of content and expression at intervals when an entire language of form suddenly falls into …

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T. J. Clark

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.15-53

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00048.004

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Chapter subject tags:Modernism (Art)France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799David, Jacques Louis, 1748-1825Marat, Jean Paul, 1743-1793Politics and culture--France--History--18th centuryArt, French--18th century

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