Jacques-Louis David (August 30, 1748 – December 29, 1825) was an extremely influential French painter and one of the most famous Neoclassical artists. His paintings, known for rejecting the highly decorative style of Rococo, helped to usher in the new era of the Neoclassical style. He drew heavy inspiration from historical subjects, particularly that of ancient European history. Some of his most famous paintings include The Oath of Horatii (1784) and The Death of Marat (1793). David’s work also includes numerous portraits of historically important French figures, including the infamous Emperor Napoleon in The Coronation of Napoleon (1805-07).

Paintings by Jacques-Louis David in Chronological Order

Portrait of Francois Buron, 1769	Portrait of Marie Francoise Buron, 1769	The Combat of Mars and Minerva, 1771
Sorrow, 1773	The Death of Seneca, 1773	Antiochus and Stratonice, 1774
View of the Tiber and Castel St. Angelo, 1776	Minerva, 1776-1777	The Funeral of Patroclus, 1778
St. Roch Praying to the Virgin for an End to the Plague, 1780	Belisarius Begging for Alms, 1781	Equestrian Portrait of Stanislas Kostka Potocki, 1781
Christ on the Cross, 1782	Portrait of Jacques Francois Desmaisons, 1782	The Grief of Andromache, 1782
Portrait of Alphonse Leroy, 1783	The Pain of Andromache, 1783	Portrait of Charles-Pierre Pecoul, 1784
Portrait of Madame Charles-Pierre Pecoul, nee Potain, mother-in-law of the artist, 1784	The Oath of Horatii, 1784	The Three Horatii Brothers, 1785
The Death of Socrates, 1787	Lictors Bearing to Brutus the Bodies of his Sons, 1789	Brutus, 1790
Portrait of Anne Marie Louise Thélusson, Countess of Sorcy, 1790	Robertine Tourteau, Marquise d’Orvilliers, 1790	Self Portrait, c.1790
Study after Michelangelo, 1790	Deputies swearing oaths, 1791	Self Portrait, 1791
The Oath in the Tennis Court, 1791	The Tennis Court Oath, 20th June 1789, YEAR	View of the interior of the tennis court, 1790-1791
Allegory of the French People Offering the Crown and Sceptre to the King, 1792	Louis XVI Showing the Constitution to his Son, the Dauphin, 1792	Portrait of Madame Adelaide Pastoret, 1791-1792
Portrait of Madame Charles-Louis Trudaine, c.1791-1792	Caricature of the English Government, 1793	Head of Marat, 1793
Queen Marie Antoinette on the way to her execution, 1793	The Death of Marat, 1793	Homer Reciting his Verses to the Greeks, 1794
Self Portrait, 1794	The Representatives of the People on Duty, 1794	View of the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris, 1794
Woman in a Turban, 1794	Gaspard Meyer or The Man in the Red Waistcoat, 1795	Jacobus Blauw, 1795
Madame Pierre Seriziat (nee Emilie Pecoul) with her Son, Emile, 1795	Portrait of Jeanbon Saint André, 1795	Portrait of Pierre Seriziat the artist’s brother-in-law, 1795
Unfinished portrait of General Bonaparte, c.1797-1798	Portrait of Madame Raymond de Verninac, 1798-1799	The Sabine Women, 1799
Madame Recamier, 1800	Napoleon Crossing the Alps at the St Bernard Pass, 20th May 1800, c.1800-1801	Portrait of Suzanne Le Pelletier de Saint Fargeau, 1804
Napoleon Holding Josephine’s Crown, 1805	Portrait of Pope Pius VII, 1805	The Empress Josephine Kneeling with Mme de la Rochefoucauld and Mme de la Valett, 1806
The Consecration of the Emperor Napoleon and the Coronation of the Empress Josephine by Pope Pius VII, 2nd December 1804, 1807	Study for the Distribution of the Eagle Standards, 1808	Sappho and Phaon, 1809
Portrait of Countess Daru, 1810	Napoleon Bonaparte in his Study at the Tuileries, 1812	Portrait of Marguerite Charlotte David, 1813
Portrait of the Countess Vilain XIIII and Her Daughter, 1816	Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes, 1817	The Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis, 1818
The Anger of Achilles, 1819	The Sisters Zenaide and Charlotte-Bonaparte, 1821	A Vestal Virgin Crowned With Flowers
Etienne Maurice Gerard	Jacques Louis David In his workshop	Portrait of a young Woman in a Turban
Portrait of Antoine-Laurent and Marie-Anne Lavoisier	Portrait of Philippe-Laurent de Joubert	Portrait of the Young Ingres
The Arrival at the Hôtel de Ville