Olga's Gallery

David was born into the family of a wealthy Parisian merchant on August 30, 1748. When the boy was about 10 years old his father, Louis-Maurice, died after a pistol duel. David's two uncles, François Buron (1731-1818) and Jacques- François Desmaisons (c.1720-89) who were both architects and building contractors, took care of the boy's upbringing. First he was educated at a boarding school and the Collège des Quatre Nations in Paris. When he decided on the career of an artist his uncles helped him to become a student of Joseph-Marie Vien (1716-1809), a professor at the Academy who had a reputation as a good teacher. Read Jacques-Louis David's Full Biography

	Portrait of Marie-Françoise Buron, the Artist's Cousin. c.1769. Oil on canvas. 66 x 54 cm. Musee National des Beaux-Arts, Algiers.
	The Combat of Mars and Minerva. 1771. Oil on canvas. 146 x 181 cm. Louvre, Paris, France. Read Note.
	Sorrow. 1773. Colored chalks on paper. 53.5 x 41 cm. Ecole Nationale Superiere des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France.
	Antiochus and Stratonice. 1774. Oil on canvas. 120 x 155 cm. École Nationale Supériere des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France. Read Note.

	The Funeral of Patroclus. 1778. Oil on canvas. 94 x 218 cm. National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland. Read Note.
	St. Roch Interceding with the Virgin for the Plague Striken. 1780. Oil on canvas. 260 x 195 cm. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Marseille, France. Read Note.
	Portrait of Count Stanislas Potocki. 1780. Oil on canvas. 304 x 218 cm. National Museum, Warsaw, Poland. Read Note.
	Belisaire demandant l'aumone. 1781. Oil on canvas. 288 x 312 cm. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France.

	Christ on the Cross. 1782. Oil on canvas. 276 x 188 cm. Church of St. Vincent, Mâcon, France. Read Note.
	Portrait of Doctor Alphonse Leroy. 1783. Oil on canvas. 72 x 91 cm. Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France.
	Andromache Mourning Hector. 1783. Oil on canvas. The Pushkin Museum of Fine Art, Moscow, Russia. Read Note.
	The Oath of Horatii. 1784. Oil on canvas. 330 x 425 cm. Louvre, Paris, France. Read Note.

	The Oath of Horatii. Detail. 1784. Oil on canvas. 330 x 425 cm. Louvre, Paris, France.
	Portrait of Charles-Pierre Pécoul, Contractor of Royal Buildings, Father-in-Law of the Artist. 1784. Oil on canvas. 92 x 73 cm. Louvre, Paris, France.
	Portrait of Madame Pécoul, Mother-in-Law of the Artist. 1784. Oil on canvas. 93 x 72 cm. Louvre, Paris, France.