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TitleParis and Helen

Creator nameDavid, Jacques-Louis

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1788

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

LocationMusée du Louvre, Paris

https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010063647

Accession numberINV 3696

SubjectsPainting, French--18th centuryMythology, Classical, in artLovers in artNeoclassicism (Art)--France

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4. The School of Athens

Thomas E. Crow

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

~~On Drouais’s death in...

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Thomas E. Crow

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.83-114

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00330.5

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Chapter subject tags:Girodet-Trioson, Anne-Louis, 1767-1824David, Jacques Louis, 1748-1825Neoclassicism (Art)Art studentsArt--Commissioning

Chapter VII: David and the Salon

Thomas E. Crow

Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris

To judge from David’s planning for the Salon of 1783, the “modesty” discerned by the author of Mémoires secrets seems closer to the mark than does any desire to reach over the heads of his superiors to some radicalized public...

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Thomas E. Crow

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.211-254

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00329.8

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Chapter subject tags:David, Jacques Louis, 1748-1825Salons--France--History--18th centuryNeoclassicism (Art)Art criticism--France--History--18th centuryHistory painting, FrenchFrance--History--Revolution, 1789-1799

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...

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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 in artSex in art

3. The Stuff of Heroes: Historical Themes in Dress and Art in France

Aileen Ribeiro

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

In the previous chapter there were many references to dress à l’antique, particularly with regard to women...

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Aileen Ribeiro

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.133-180

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00308.4

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Chapter subject tags:Clothing and dress in artCostume--HistoryPainting, French--18th centuryPainting, French--19th centuryHistory painting

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