Jacques-Louis David: Empire to Exile

What a great book, and what a man, survived three dinastes, painted like no other and inspired a nation to glory. Buy it and enjoy a wonderful story.

It is the catalog of a recent exhibition of works of Jacques-Louis David, mostly portraits and drawings, the text presents many details, and illustrations of the portraits are superb.

This excellent book published on the occasion of an exhibition presents two remarkable personalities of this painter - a celebrated and controversial painter of his time and his connection with Napoleon Buonaparte.The second helped him in the way to the admiration , after a revolutionary republican beginning.The first cannot forget a notable draftman and painter,with followers such as Gros , Ingres,Thévenin,... Even in the exile,his portraits are precious.Connecting or not one part of his life as official painter of Napoleon, forgetting or not his revolutionary starting , David remains ,as Stendhal defended , the greatest painter of 18th century.