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Jacques Louis David
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Noun1.Jacques Louis David - French neoclassical painter who actively supported the French Revolution (1748-1825)Jacques Louis David - French neoclassical painter who actively supported the French Revolution (1748-1825)


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The French painter Jacques-Louis David, for example, painted Napoleon with the same two locks of hair on his forehead that we see in his self-portrait and in his iconic painting of Marat in the bath.
Other works are the "The Musicians' Brawl," by painter Georges de La Tour dating from between 1625-1630, and "The Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis," an 1818 painting by Jacques-Louis David.
The portrait shames its neighbour, the portrait of the marquise d'Orvilliers delineated, with his usual coarse, unvisionary veracity and unselective minuteness, by Jacques-Louis David.
 
 
 
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