Diploma Lecture Series 2013 Revolution to Romanticism: European Art and Culture 1750-1850

Jacques Louis David: Empire and Exile

Mark Ledbury

27/28 November 2013

This lecture explores the work of Jacques-Louis David from where my last lecture left off- exploring his work for Napoleon, the tensions of his relations with the Emperor, and then the direction his work took as he was forced into Exile in Brussels for the last 15 years of his life. It will explore his grand scale paintings as well as his portraits and his intriguing and often disturbing late drawings and examine his importance as an exiled figure as the world of Painting in Paris moved beyond him.

Slide list:

1. Jacques-Louis David, The Intervention of the Sabine Women (1794-9, Oil on Canvas, Paris, Louvre) 2. Jacques-Louis David, Intervention of the Sabine Women (two details) 3. Jean Broc, The Death of Hyacinth (1801, Oil on Canvas, Musee Sainte-Croix) 4. Jacques-Louis David, Napoleon crossing the alps at the Mont-St Bernard Pass (1800, Musée national du château de Malmaison) 5. Jacques-Louis David, Napoleon crossing the alps at the Mont-St Bernard Pass (1801, First Versailles version, Musée national du château de Malmaison) 6. Jacques-Louis David, Napoleon crossing the alps at the Mont-St Bernard Pass (1804, 5th version, Second Versailles version, Palace of Versailles) 7. Jacques-Louis David, Napoleon in his Study (1812, Oil on Canvas, Washington, National Gallery of Art) 8. Jacques-Louis David, The Coronation of Napoleon (1805-7, Oil on Canvas, Paris, Louvre) 9. Jacques-Louis David, The Coronation of Napoleon (detail) (1805-7, Oil on Canvas, Paris, Louvre) 10. Jacques-Louis David, The Distribution of the Eagle Standards (1805-10 Versailles, Palace of Versailles) 11. Jacques-Louis David, Sketch for The Distribution of the Eagle Standards (c.1806) 12. Jacques-Louis David: The (1785, Paris Louvre) 13. Anne-Louis Girodet, A Scene of Deluge (1808, Paris, Louvre) 14. Jacques-Louis David, The Intervention of the Sabine Women (1794-9, Oil on Canvas, Paris, Louvre) 15. Jacques-Louis David, Napoleon in his imperial Robes (1806, Lille, Musee des Beaux arts) 16. Jacques-Louis David, Sappho and Phaon (1809, Oil on Canvas, St Petersburg, Hermitage) 17. Jacques-Louis David, Portrait of Mr and Madame Mongez (1812, Paris, Louvre) 18. Jacques-Louis David, Portrait of Suzanne Le Pelletier de Saint Fargeau 19. Jacques-Louis David, (1819, Oil on Canvas, Kimbell Art Museum) 20. Jacques-Louis David, Telemachus and Eucharis (1818, Oil on Canvas, Los Angeles, Getty Museum) 21. Jacques-Louis David, Portrait of Ramel de Nogaret (1820, Oil on Canvas, Private Market) 22. Jacques-Louis David, Portrait of Delahaye (1815, Oil on Canvas, Los Angeles County Museum of Art) 23. Jacques-Louis David The Sisters Zénaïde and Charlotte Bonaparte (1821, Oil on Canvas, Los Angeles, Getty Museum) 24. Jacques-Louis David The Rape of Lucretia (1823, Ink, Graphite)

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25. Jacques-Louis David Variation on the Intervention of the Sabine Women, (1818-21 Drawing) 26. Jacques-Louis David The Prisoner (1816-22, Graphite, Cleveland Museum of Art) 27. Jacques-Louis David A Scene of Mourning (Composition with Five Figures) (1819, Graphite and black chalk on laid paper, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco) 28. Jacques-Louis David Mars Disarmed by Venus and the Three Graces (Brussels, Musees Royaux) 29. Jean Louis Théodore Gericault, The Raft of the Medusa (1818-19, Paris, Louvre) 30. Eugène Delacroix, Dante and Virgil in Hell (1822, Paris, Louvre) 31. Eugène Delacroix, The Death of Sardanapalus (1827, Oil on Canvas, Paris, Louvre) 32. Jacques-Louis David Mars Disarmed by Venus and the Three Graces (Brussels, Musees Royaux) and Eugène Delacroix, The Death of Sardanapalus (1827, Oil on Canvas, Paris, Louvre)

Reference:

Bordes, Philippe, Jacques-Louis David : Empire to Exile. New Haven; Williamstown, Mass.: Yale University Press ; Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2005.

Ledbury, Mark, ed. David After David: Essays on the Later Work. Williamstown, Mass: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2007.

David, Jacques Louis. Jacques-Louis David: New Perspectives. Newark [Del.]: University of Delaware Press, 2006.

Eisenman, Stephen F. Nineteenth Century Art: A Critical History. Thames & Hudson, 2011. (see especially the two chapters on neo-classical art and empire at the beginning of the book, by Thomas Crow

Schnapper, Antoine. Jacques-Louis David : 1748-1825. Paris uni n des us es nati nau , 1989.,