[[Image:JLDavid.jpg|right|thumb|Self portrait, 1794.]]
'''Jacques-Louis David''' ([[Paris]] 1748 - [[Brussels]] 1825), was a French painter. He was one of the most prominent painters and the leader in [[France]] of the [[Neoclassical|Neo-Classical]] movement. The earliest Neoclassical painters were [[Joseph Marie Vien]], [[Anton Raphael Mengs]], Pompeo Batoni, Angelica Kauffmann, and Gavin Hamilton, David's contemporaries included Jean-Germain Drouais.
David painted in [[Rome]] is famous ''Oath of the Horatii''.