
Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825)French · 1780s–1820sPainted here after this hand, never after their pictures
French 1748–1825
Jacques-Louis David
Neoclassical clarity, severe and still.
Gone 201 years, so the hand is everyone’s. We describe it to the painters: the light, the ground, the palette, the stroke. The picture is yours.
Default palette: Florentine
What shall we hang here?The line above becomes the first.
Painted here 3 judged
The hand, three times over
Each of these was painted in this studio in this hand and passed the art gate before it hung. Nothing here is a photograph of a painting.






