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Last Name David

Given Name Jacques Louis

alt. Names J. L. D. ;

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Year born 1748 in Paris

Year died 1825

Place of death Brussels

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Education pupil of Joseph-Marie Vien ;

Country of Activity France

Worked for Robert John Thornton ; chemist Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and his wife Marie-Anne Lavoisier ;

Patronage Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, Paris ; Musée du Louvre, Paris ;

Collaborators

Techniques botanical drawing and painting ;

Sample(s) http://www.picturingplants.com/2011_08_01_archive.html ;

Archival sources BNF, Recueil. Oeuvre de Jacques-Louis David]; var.links in http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques-Louis_David ;

Published sources Nissen: Botan. Buchillustration 1966 ; Le peintre L. D.-suite d'eaux-fortes d'apres ses gravées ; J. L. D.: New perspectives ; Uwe Fleckner: Respiration und Inspiration. J.L.Ds Bildnis des Chemikers Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier und seiner Frau Marie-Anne, Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 77 (2014): 545-564; Schapper, Antoine & Arlette Sérullaz: J.L.D., catalogue of the Louvre, Paris 1989; Marco Beretta: Imaging a Career in Science. The Iconography of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, Bologna studies in Scientific Heritage, 1, Canton Mass., 2001; Joachim Gaus: ingenium und Ars. Das Ehepaar-Bildnis Lavoisier von David und die Ikonographie der Museninspiration, Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch 36 (1974): 199-228;

other Mainly active in France; further regions of activity: Belgium and Italy. Best known for history & portraiture painting.

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