Figure 54 Jacques Louis David, Death of Marat, 1793, Louvre, Paris, France

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TitleDeath of Marat

Creator nameDavid, Jacques-Louis

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1793

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

LocationMusée du Louvre, Paris

https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010059773

Accession numberRF 1945 2

SubjectsPainting, French--18th centuryNeoclassicism (Art)--FranceMurder in art

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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

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00329.9

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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

4: Psyche in the Boudoir

Ewa Lajer-Burcharth

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

This story of David’s unfinished business with Juliette Récamier, which we have reasons to believe came from the artist himself, has echoed in the Davidian literature...

Author

Ewa Lajer-Burcharth

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.236-306

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00327.5

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Chapter subject tags:France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799Récamier, Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélaïde Bernard, 1777-1849Neoclassicism (Art)--FranceClothing and dress--France--History--18th centuryDavid, Jacques Louis, 1748-1825Portrait painting, French--18th centuryWomen--Portraits--France--18th centuryArt criticism--France--History--18th centuryArt and society--France--History--18th centuryGirodet-Trioson, Anne-Louis, 1767-1824

3. Liberty on the Barricades: Woman, Politics and Sexuality in Delacroix

Marcia Pointon

Naked Authority: The Body in Western Painting, 1830–1908

Eugène Delacroix’s painting Liberty Guiding the People, more often popularly known as Liberty on the Barricades (plate 19), is one of Europe’s most familiar images...

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Marcia Pointon

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.59-82

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Chapter subject tags:Female nude in artDelacroix, Eugène, 1798-1863. Liberty leading the peopleGenderObjectification (Social psychology)David, Jacques Louis, 1748-1825

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

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00288.2

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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 III

Alexander Nehamas

Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art

More than just windows to the soul, the eyes are part of it. What we know—or think we know or want to think—about them affects how people look to us...

Author

Alexander Nehamas

PublisherPrinceton University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.72-101

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00285.3

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Chapter subject tags:AestheticsArt criticismNietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900Interpersonal attraction

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