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Jacques-Louis David
(30th Aug, 1748 - 29th Dec, 1825)
The Intervention of the Sabine Women
1799
Credit:
Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Franck Raux
musée du Louvre
http://www.louvre.fr
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Keywords:
castle
shield
figure study
Sabine women
soldier
cavalryman
scène antique romaine
mise au carreau
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About the artwork
Title:
The Intervention of the Sabine Women
Periods:
18th century
contemporary period from 1789 until 1914
XVIIIth century
Techniques:
blacklead
pen (drawing)
dessin au crayon noir
wash with grey
black ink
brown ink
mise au carreau
white highlights
mise au carreau
Dimensions:
477 x 640
Inventory number:
INV26183-recto
Detail:
painting by Jacques-Louis David
Location:
musée du Louvre
See more about this artwork on Wikipedia:
The Intervention of the Sabine Women
is a 1799 painting by the French painter Jacques-Louis David, showing a legendary episode following the abduction of the Sabine women by the founding generation of Rome. David began planning the work while he was imprisoned in the Luxembourg Palace in 1795. France was at war with other European nations after a period of civil conflict culminating in the Reign of Terror and the Thermidorian Reaction, during which David had been imprisoned as a supporter of…
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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:
Jacques-Louis David
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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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