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Gallery 614 - David and Neoclassicism

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  • The Death of Socrates
    The Death of Socrates

    Jacques-Louis David (French, Paris 1748–1825 Brussels)

    Date: 1787
    Accession Number: 31.45

  • Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and His Wife (Marie-Anne-Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)
    Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and His Wife (Marie-Anne-Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)

    Jacques-Louis David (French, Paris 1748–1825 Brussels)

    Date: 1788
    Accession Number: 1977.10

  • The Public Viewing David’s
    The Public Viewing David’s "Coronation" at the Louvre

    Louis Léopold Boilly (French, La Bassée 1761–1845 Paris)

    Date: 1810
    Accession Number: 2012.156

  • Madame Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (Noël Catherine Verlée, 1761–1835), later Princesse de Bénévent
    Madame Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (Noël Catherine Verlée, 1761–1835), later Princesse de Bénévent

    baron François Gérard (French, Rome 1770–1837 Paris)

    Date: ca. 1805
    Accession Number: 2002.31

  • Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1754–1838), Prince de Bénévent
    Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1754–1838), Prince de Bénévent

    Pierre Paul Prud'hon (French, Cluny 1758–1823 Paris)

    Date: 1817
    Accession Number: 1994.190

  • Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1754–1838), Prince de Bénévent
    Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1754–1838), Prince de Bénévent

    baron François Gérard (French, Rome 1770–1837 Paris)

    Date: 1808
    Accession Number: 2012.348

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Europe's fascination with the heritage of Greece and Rome assumed new urgency in the years leading up to the French Revolution, the onset of which was marked by the storming of the Bastille prison on July 14, 1789. The roles of artist and political activist converged in Jacques-Louis David. His Death of Socrates—a landmark Neoclassical painting—shows the heretical teacher and philosopher of Athens as he prepares to sacrifice his life for his beliefs. The picture was exhibited to acclaim at the Salons of 1787 and 1791. In portraiture during the same period, the accoutrements of courtly power yielded to understated elegance, suggesting a culture of refined intelligence.

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