Jacques-Louis David, 1815 - Portrait of Jean-Pierre Delahaye - fine art print

Original artwork description from the museum (© - Los Angeles County Museum of Art - Los Angeles County Museum of Art)

Similar to the way French playwright Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732-1799) used his plays featuring the fictional character of Figaro to champion lower-class morality, painter Jacques-Louis David employed classical allegories to illustrate the Republican virtues he saw emerging in France during the Revolution. David became famous for these politically charged history paintings, but he turned to portraiture after the Terror in 1794. This particular work is the last David painted before he fled to Brussels in 1815.

The subject of this painting, Jean-Pierre Delahaye, was a man of persistence: he continued his law practice during the years of the Revolution by repeatedly completing the regime’s frequently changing requirements. David focused on illuminating Delahaye’s trustworthy expression, honoring their close friendship. In the year of Delahaye’s death in 1819, an obituary revered him as “the most upright and distinguished member of the Bar,” validating David’s representation of his strong moral character. Read more (Curator Notes)

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The modern art masterpiece was made by the male French artist Jacques-Louis David. The 200 year old version of the artwork measures the size: 24 × 19 1/4 in (60,96 × 48,9 cm). Oil on panel was applied by the artist as the medium of the painting. What is more, this work of art is in the the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's collection, which is the largest art museum in the western United States, with a collection of more than 142.000 objects that illuminate 6.000 years of artistic expression across the globe. This modern art public domain artwork is being supplied with courtesy of Los Angeles County Museum of Art (www.lacma.org).The creditline of the artwork is the following: . On top of that, alignment is in portrait format and has a side ratio of 1 : 1.2, which means that the length is 20% shorter than the width. The politician, painter Jacques-Louis David was a European artist, whose artistic style can primarily be attributed to Neoclassicism. The French artist lived for a total of 77 years and was born in 1748 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France and deceased in 1825 in Brussels, Bruxelles region, Belgium.

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