| | [[Image:JLDavid.jpg|right|thumb|Self portrait, 1794.]] | | [[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. In 1774, he was awarded with the [[Prix de Rome]]. | + | '''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. In 1774, he was awarded with the [[Prix de Rome]] with his "Erasistratus Discovering the Cause of Antiochus' Disease". |