Jaques-Louis David - Portrait of a Young Woman in White [c.1798], originally uploaded by Gandalf's Gallery.
Jacques-Louis David was born in Paris in 1748, the son of an iron merchant who was killed in a duel (an unusual circumstance in his social class), when the boy was nine years old. His guardians wished to train him as an architect, but he insisted on being allowed to study painting. Following the advice of Boucher, he was placed in the studio of Joseph-Marie Vien (1716-1809), the leading promoter of the neoclassical reaction against the rococo. David's student work, strikingly rococo at first, was slow in adjusting to the ascendancy of classicism. A heart ailment brought on his death in December 1825.
[Oil on canvas, 125.5 x 95 cm]
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