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Jacques-Louis David
(30th Aug, 1748 - 29th Dec, 1825)
Etude de deux personnages pour La mort de Socrate
Credit:
Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais / René-Gabriel Ojéda
Bayonne, musée Bonnat-Helleu
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Keywords:
Socrates (470-399 BC)
philosopher
drapery
mise au carreau
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About the artwork
Title:
Etude de deux personnages pour La mort de Socrate
Techniques:
black chalk
mise au carreau
white highlights
mise au carreau
Dimensions:
540 x 332
Inventory number:
NI515;AI1892
About the author(s)
Author:
Jacques-Louis David
Also known as:
Jacques Louis David
Born:
30th Aug, 1748
Dead:
29th Dec, 1825
Country:
France
See more about this author on Wikipedia:
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; 30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) was an influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste away from Rococo frivolity toward a classical austerity and severity, heightened feeling harmonizing with the moral climate of the final years of the
Ancien Régime
. David later became an active supporter of…
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