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Oath of the Horatii, oil painting by French artist Jacques-Louis David that was completed in 1785. The work, depicting a scene from Roman legend, remains one of the best-known Neoclassical paintings.
In 1785 visitors to the Paris Salon (the official art exhibition organized by the Academy of Fine Arts) were transfixed by one painting, Jacques-Louis David’s Oath of the Horatii. It depicts three men, brothers, saluting toward three swords held up by their father as the women behind him grieve—no one had ever seen a painting like it.
Oct 14, 2023 · The Oath of Horatii is one of the most memorable paintings with a significant meaning produced by the popular French painter Jacques Louis David. In a bid to reconstruct history, Jacques painted a picture of the Horattii brothers making an oath to defend Rome with their lives.
In 1784 Louis XVI commissioned from Jacques-Louis David a life-size depiction of the ancient Roman story of the Horatii family pledging to fight the Curiatii. That famous painting is now in...
Dec 12, 2023 · Oath of the Horatii (French: Le Serment des Horaces), is a large painting by the French artist Jacques-Louis David painted in 1784 and now on display in the Louvre in Paris.
Title: The Oath of the Horatii. Artist: Jacques Louis David (French, Paris 1748–1825 Brussels) Date: 1784–85. Medium: Oil over pen and black ink, squared in black chalk, on paper laid down on canvas. Dimensions: Sheet: 10 7/16 × 14 3/4 in. (26.5 × 37.5 cm) Classification: Drawings. Credit Line: Musée du Louvre, Paris (RF 47)
Jacques-Louis David, Painter to the King, the Revolution, and the Emperor. David was trained in the classicism favored by the Academy but here creates the far more severe style, Neo-Classicism.
