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David, Louis
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A French historical painter, born in Paris; studied in Rome and settled in Paris; was carried away with the Revolution; joined the Jacobin Club, swore eternal friendship with Robespierre; designed "a statue of Nature with two mammelles spouting out water" for the deputes to drink to, and another of the sovereign people, "high as Salisbury steeple"; was sentenced to the guillotine, but escaped out of regard for his merit as an artist; appointed first painter by Napoleon, but on the Restoration was banished and went to Brussels, where he died; among his paintings are "The Oath of the Horatii," "The Rape of the Sabines," "The Death of Socrates," and "The Coronation of Napoleon" (1748-1825).
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'David, Louis'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/d/david-louis.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'David, Louis'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/d/david-louis.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
