18 Jacques-Louis David, The Oath of the Tennis Court, 1791

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Description: The Oath of the Tennis Court

TitleThe Oath of the Tennis Court

Creator nameDavid, Jacques-Louis

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation date1791

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsPen, ink, wash, pencil on paper

Dimensions25 13/16 × 39 3/4 in. (65.5 × 101 cm)

LocationChâteau de Versailles, France

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Accession numberINV.DESS 736

SubjectsArtists' preparatory studiesDrawing, FrenchTennis Court Oath, Versailles, France, 1789France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799

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8. The Return of the Exile

Thomas E. Crow

Emulation: David, Drouais, and Girodet in the Art of Revolutionary France

~What of those young allies an imprisoned David left behind? The trauma of Thermidor had intervened...

Author

Thomas E. Crow

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.189-214

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Chapter subject tags:Gros, Antoine-Jean, baron, 1771-1835Gérard, François, 1770-1837France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Art and the revolutionNeoclassicism (Art)--FranceDavid, Jacques Louis, 1748-1825Painting, French--18th century

Postscript

Thomas E. Crow

Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris

THE initial agenda of this book was to map the expanding public sphere that surrounded French painting in the later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a sphere that was at once a discursive formation and a site of actual social practice...

Author

Thomas E. Crow

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.256-258

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Chapter subject tags:Art criticism--France--History--18th centuryFrance--History--Revolution, 1789-1799Neoclassicism (Art)--FranceArt, French--18th century--ExhibitionsPainting, French--18th centuryDavid, Jacques Louis, 1748-1825Art and society--France--History--18th century

1: The Shadow of the Guillotine

Ewa Lajer-Burcharth

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

Perched on the edge of an armchair, a blank wall behind him, a painter’s palette in one hand, a brush in the other, the artist seems to fix the viewer with his stare...

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Ewa Lajer-Burcharth

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.8-70

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Chapter subject tags:France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799France--History--Reign of Terror, 1793-1794Robespierre, Maximilien, 1758-1794David, Jacques Louis, 1748-1825Painting, French--18th centurySelf-portraits, French--18th centuryArt and society--France--History--18th century

2. Painters of Modern Life: Fashion from 1789 to 1820

Aileen Ribeiro

The Art of Dress: Fashion in England and France, 1750 to 1820

In terms of dress, the year 1789 is an arbitrary date, for the French Revolution did not initiate any dramatic change in fashion...

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Aileen Ribeiro

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.81-131

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Chapter subject tags:Neoclassicism (Art)Costume--History--18th centuryFrance--History--Revolution, 1789-1799Clothing and dress--France--History--18th centuryClothing and dress--Great Britain--History--18th centuryPortrait painting, French--18th centuryDavid, Jacques Louis, 1748-1825Art and society--France--History--18th centuryIngres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique, 1780-1867

II. The Exemplum Virtutis

Robert Rosenblum

Transformations in Late Eighteenth-Century Art

~THE UNCOMMON heroism of a Hector or a Germanicus, the noble tears of an Andromache or an Agrippina—such high moments from...

Author

Robert Rosenblum

PublisherPrinceton University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.50-106

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Chapter subject tags:Neoclassicism (Art)Painting, French--18th centuryGreuze, Jean-Baptiste, 1725-1805West, Benjamin, 1738-1820Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)Gros, Antoine-Jean, baron, 1771-1835Painting, British--18th centuryPainting, French--19th centuryDelacroix, Eugène, 1798-1863David, Jacques Louis, 1748-1825

Chapter 1: Black Revolution

Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby

Extremities: Painting Empire in Post-Revolutionary France

Endymion’s reclining face is eclipsed like a crescent moon,; offering less than a half view, crowned by oversized features which swell large, arching, and full, all lips, nostril, eyelid, and brow...

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Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby

PublisherYale University Press

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