A Muse (detail), by Constance Mayer
c. 1800s, Napoleonic era
According to the lot essay, Napoleon gave Mayer an apartment in Paris and bought some of her paintings. She studied under Joseph-Benoît Suvée and Jean-Baptiste Greuze. During the early 1800s, she joined the studio of Jacques-Louis David and collaborated with Pierre-Paul Prud'hon.
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Napoleon Crossing the Alps by Jacques Louis David (1801, Öl auf Leinwand)
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Mademoiselle Guimard as Terpsichore by Jacques-Louis David, 1773-1775.
Context: portrait of Marie-Madeleine Guimard, a french ballerina. Terpsichore was the ancient greek muse of dance and chorus.
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Jaques-Louis David (French, 1748-1825) • Madame de Pastoret and Her Son • 1791-92 • Art Institute of Chicago
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Jacques Louis David (French, 1748–1825) • Portrait of Antoine and Marie Anne Lavoisier • 1788 • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
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A landmark of European portraiture that asserts a modern, scientifically minded couple in fashionable but simple dress, this painting was excluded from the Salon of 1789 for fears it would further ignite revolutionary zeal. Technical analysis has revealed that a first iteration excluded the scientific instruments and would have been a far more conventional portrait of a wealthy, fashionable couple of the tax-collector class. Lavoisier was a pioneering chemist credited with the discovery of oxygen and the chemical composition of water through experiments in which his wife collaborated. However, he was also involved in studies of gunpowder and a misunderstanding about his removal of this precious commodity from the Bastille in the summer of 1789 threw his alliances into question. This mishap and his status as a tax collector (the more prosaic means by which he funded his scientific research) led him to be guillotined in 1794. ~ Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Wallace Polsom, Napoleon under the Knife (2023), paper collage, 14.3 x 29.2 cm.
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261. Thermidor - Oclofobia (Black Metal, 2022)
Art by Jacques-Louis David: "La Mort de Marat or Marat Assassiné" (The Death of Marat), 1793
Jean-Paul Marat (24 May 1743 – 13 July 1793) was one of the leaders of the Montagnards, a radical faction active during the French Revolution from the Reign of Terror to the Thermidorian Reaction. Marat was stabbed to death by Charlotte Corday, a Girondin and political enemy of Marat who blamed Marat for the September Massacre.
When he was murdered, Marat was correcting a proof of his newspaper L'Ami du peuple (last image). The blood stained page is preserved. - In the painting, the note Marat is holding is made up by the painter.
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Emperor Napoleon I by Jacques-Louis David, 1807.
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The Intervention Of The Sabine Women (1799)
Jacques Louis David (French, 1748 - 1825)
The painting depicts Romulus's wife Hersilia – the daughter of Titus Tatius, leader of the Sabines – rushing between her husband and her father and placing her babies between them. A vigorous Romulus prepares to strike a half-retreating Tatius with his spear, but hesitates.
The rocky outcrop in the background is the Tarpeian Rock, a reference to civil conflict, since the Roman punishment for treason was to be thrown from the rock. According to legend, when Tatius attacked Rome, he almost succeeded in capturing the city because of the treason of the Vestal Virgin Tarpeia, daughter of Spurius Tarpeius, governor of the citadel on the Capitoline Hill. She opened the city gates for the Sabines in return for "what they bore on their arms". She believed that she would receive their golden bracelets. Instead, the Sabines crushed her to death and threw her from the rock, later named for her.
The towering walls in the background of the painting have been interpreted as an allusion to the Bastille, whose storming on 14 July 1789 marked the beginning of the French Revolution.[1]
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