The Legacy of Jacques Louis David (1748–1825) – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/essays/the-legacy-of-jacques-louis-david-1748-1825
David championed a style of rigorous contours, sculpted forms, and polished surfaces; history paintings were intended as moral exemplars.
’s studio in the late 1790s, would transform his master’s Neoclassical portrait model
