Research Catalog

Title

David / Arlette Sérullaz, Louis-Antoine Prat ; [translated by Susan Wise].

Author

Sérullaz, Arlette

Publication

Milan : 5 Continents Editions, c2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Wise, Susan
• Prat, Louis-Antoine, 1944-

Description

82 p. : ill. (chiefly col. ); 21 cm.

Summary

"The work of Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825), along with that of Nicolas Poussin and Paul Cezanne, probably represents one of the three great turning points in the evolution of French art. A man of the Enlightenment but equally nurtured by the moral examples of classical literature, he altered the course of the pictorial school of his day, and more than any other stands for the particular form of a "return to order" that characterises French Neoclassicism." "Draughtsmanship was instrumental in that evolution; beholding antique ruins for the first time during his two stays in Rome, David constantly drew in his sketchbooks and albums, inventing an original graphic style, accurate and sharp. He was equally rigorous in the preparatory drawings for his great pre-Revolutionary compositions (The Oath of the Horatii, Brutus), as, subsequently, in the huge scenographies dedicated to Napoleon's epic exploits." "The Louvre holds the most important collection of David's drawings in the world, with two of the twelve Roman albums, in which the artist assembled his travel recollections, as well as eight sketchbooks, where, page after page, we can follow the genesis of such famous compositions as The Sacre or The Distribution of the Eagle Standards. Outstanding among the individual drawings is the most famous icon of the Revolutionary period, the large drawing for The Oath of the Jeu de Paume, a valuable testimony of a project that was never carried out, along with utterly candid studies for portraits and figures that are evidence of the political evolution of a painter who was also a committed actor in the history of his time."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Louvre drawing gallery ; 9

Uniform Title

Drawing gallery (Musée du Louvre) ; 9.

Subject

• David, Jacques Louis, 1748-1825 > Catalogs
• Musée du Louvre > Catalogs
• Drawing > 18th century > Catalogs
• Drawing > 19th century > Catalogs

Genre/Form

Catalogs

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 81-82) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 2350310248 (Musée du Louvre)
• 9782350310244 (Musée du Louvre)
• 8874392508 (5 Continents Editions)
• 9788874392506 (5 Continents Editions)

LCCN

^^2006490553

OCLC

• 62130580
• SCSB-9900485

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library