#Louis Jacques David

[hoppityhopster23]

I went out on a little outing today.

To my surprise, one of the museums where I live had both a bust of Napoleon III and a piece done by David!

Also to my surprise, Thorvaldsen was a lovely looking fellow in his youth!

[vnynv]

After years of such servitude, during an unguarded moment, Arcade used a surgical scalpel and his bare hands to disembowel himself. Caesar mourned his loss for months.

study of david's death of marat

[diioonysus]

gold + art

[sawthoone]

“your drink is waiting for you, arthur.”

i fear i’ll never be the same after this fic. i’ve been skinned, flensed and left to dry in the harsh sun. there’s no god. anyways you should go read it (and please, please mind the tags). @lightlysaltedsalt i’m never forgiving you for this.

[doodleplus]

Aligned with the Emperor

[jareckiworld]

Shabnam Jahanshahi — Charlotte Corday's Dream (oil, canvas, 2023)

[leatherandmossprints]

‘Patroclus’ by Jacques-Louis David, c. 1780.

[mirrutatep]

Napoleon Crossing the Alps

A recreation of a famous painting

twitter ♦ prints ♦ tip jar

[sculppp]

Jacques-Louis David (1748 – 1825)

Academic nude, Louis David's atelier

[diana-andraste]

Untitled (standing nude before mirror), Joseph Cornell, n.d.

[screamofdespair]

Napoleon Crossing the Alps - Jacques-Louis David (1801)

Mobile Suit Gundam : The Origin - Yoshikazu Yasuhiko (2001)

[resplendentoutfit]

The Scandalous Chemise of Marie Antoinette

Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, 1783-) • Marie Antoinette in a Chemise Dress • 1783

Just as John Singer Sargent did some 100 years later, Elizabeth Vigée Le Brun often befriended her portrait subjects, engaging their trust so as to create authentic portraits that captured not just the likeness but the spirit of the sitter. Such was the case with Vigée Le Brun's Marie Antoinette in a Chemise Dress.

Vigée Le Brun was the official court painter. She painted Marie Antoinette approximately 30 times. For the "chemise dress" painting, it's unclear whose idea it was that the queen depart from traditional, more formal dress and wear a casual, unstructured dress instead. Perhaps Vigée Le Brun persuaded her to wear the white chemise or they arrived at the decision together.

The dress itself is made from cotton muslin instead of the French silk that royalty usually had their garments made from. It is tied comfortably at the waist with a yellow sash. The only ornamentation are the puffed sleeves and the ruffled neckline. Marie wears very little makeup and no jewelry.

Despite its simple elegance, the painting was met with much scorn and disapproval when it was shown at Vigée Le Brun's first Académie Salon. Though the garment was designed to be a dress, its lack of structure resembled an undergarment and was thus considred scandalous. Further, it was considered unpatriotic that the queen of France wore imported cotton rather than French Lyonnaise silk. Vigée Le Brun was forced to remove the portrait from the Salon and it was replaced with this one:

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, 1755–1842). Marie Antoinette with a Rose • 1783

By the end of the 18th century, the chemise dress was hugely popular and worn for portraits by many prominent women in and outside of France. Marie Antoinette's fashion faux pas led to a fashion craze which is said by some historians to have been a catalyst for the slave trade, as the demand for cotton grew exponentially.

Right: Jacques Louis David (French, 1748-1825) • Antoine Laurent Lavoisier and His Wife • 1788.

Left: George Romney (British/English, 1734-1802) • Mrs. Billington as Saint Cecilia • 1787-88

The chemise dress was to evolve to an empire waist and a narrower skirt, creating the style we now call The Regency fashion era.

[empirearchives]

Celine Dion visiting the Louvre Museum in Paris during the 2024 Olympics

Painting featured: The Coronation of Napoleon, Jacques-Louis David, c. 1807

Source: (1) (2)

[diioonysus]

who tends the orchards? who fixes up the gables? emotional torture from the head of your high table who fetches the water from the rocky mountain spring? and walk back down again to feel your words and their sharp sting and i'm getting fucking tired the capillaries in my eyes are bursting if our love died, would that be the worst thing? for somebody I thought was my saviour you sure make me do a whole lot of labour the calloused skin on my hands is cracking if our love ended, would that be a bad thing? and the silence haunts our bed chamber you make me do too much labour

[pipervive]

no way

[granstromjulius]

Jacques Louis Jules David