<P> Jacques - Louis David ( French : ( ʒaklwi david ) ; 30 August 1748 -- 29 December 1825 ) was a French painter in the Neoclassical style , considered to be the preeminent painter of the era . In the 1780s his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste away from Rococo frivolity toward classical austerity and severity and heightened feeling , harmonizing with the moral climate of the final years of the Ancien Régime . </P>
<P> Jacques - Louis David ( French : ( ʒaklwi david ) ; 30 August 1748 -- 29 December 1825 ) was a French painter in the Neoclassical style , considered to be the preeminent painter of the era . In the 1780s his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste away from Rococo frivolity toward classical austerity and severity and heightened feeling , harmonizing with the moral climate of the final years of the Ancien Régime . </P>
this french artist was the most important neoclassical history painter
this french artist was the most important neoclassical history painter
Jacques - Louis David
Jacques - Louis David