jacques louis david meaning

Noun: Jacques Louis David

1. French neoclassical painter who actively supported the French Revolution (1748-1825)
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Type of: painter

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1. The French painters Jacques Louis David and Ingres went to paint and see masterpieces.
2. Painters like Jacques Louis David, Atkins says, tried to paint real people who rose in crisis to heroic action.
3. He fastidiously follows in the grand portrait painting tradition of Rembrandt, Jacques Louis David, Hans Holbein and Anthony van Dyck.
4. During his three years in Paris at the height of the Napoleonic period, Eckersberg studied under Jacques Louis David, who specialized in depicting historical scenes in precise detail.
5. During the Revolution, Jacques Louis David, a friend of Robespierre and a member of the radical Jacobin club, became the unofficial minister of propaganda of the Revolution.