Jacques-louis David (1748-1825), Workshop Of - Virile Nude Oil On Canvas

Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825), Workshop of - Nu viril Oil on canvas - Unsigned Jacques-Louis David (Paris 1748 - Brussels 1825) Nu viril (school of ) Oil on canvas 95 x 68.5 cm canvas 107 x 84 cm with frame Among the many examples, interesting comparisons with the figures that appear in the paintings The Sabines and Leonidas at Thermopylae, kept at the Louvre. He was, with Antonio Canova and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, one of the main representatives of the neoclassical movement in European art between the 18th and 19th centuries. Of petty bourgeois origin, he trained in the workshop of Joseph-Marie Vien. In 1769, he won third prize in the Prix de quartier, thanks to which he participated in the Prix de Rome. Between 1775 and 1780, he lived in Rome, where he deepened his studies of ancient sculpture and where he was fascinated by Renaissance and Baroque painting, in particular Raphael, to the point that his style was shaped in a Neoclassical tone. A fervent revolutionary, he sang in images the deeds and gestures of Napoleon. His art entered history and the School of David was already used at the beginning of the 19th century, considering both his direct students and the painters around him, among whom: Jean-Germain Drouais, Antoine-Jean Gros, François Gérard, Anne-Louis Girodet, Jean-Baptiste Isabey, Jean-Pierre Franque, Jérôme-Martin Langlois, Jean-Baptiste Joseph Wicar.