Jacques-Louis David, French painter and illustrator (died 1825)

Jacques-Louis David

French painter and designer of the Flag of France (1748–1825)

Jacques-Louis David was a French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s, his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste away from Rococo frivolity toward classical austerity, severity, and heightened…