Comments on: Feel Art Again: Jacques-Louis David’s “Madame Récamier”

By: Therese

Therese — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:22:06 +0000

Merci pour ces renseignments interessants!

By: liz

liz — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:34:30 +0000

Jacques-Louis David is most famous for his portraits of Napoleon, and of of Marat, who was one of the lead architects of the reign of terror. He had a habit of throwing his lot in with tyrants. One of his most famous paintings is of the Death of Marat, depicting the psychopath as a christ-figure, when in reality he was a madman who sent thousands of innocent people to the guillotine.

By: Andréa

Andréa — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:59:36 +0000

Nat X: Récamier was friends with many former royalists and had refused to become a lady-in-waiting to Josephine Bonaparte; she was exiled under orders of Napoleon I. David had voted for Louis XVI’s execution and, after the Bourbons returned to power, was on the list of former revolutionaries. He was granted amnesty by Louis XVIII and asked to be a court painter. David refused, preferring a self-imposed exile instead.

By: Nat X

Nat X — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:02:48 +0000

“Both Juliette Récamier and Jacques-Louis David were exiled from Paris, though not at the same time.”

Why? Did I miss something?

By: Roger

Roger — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 22:03:00 +0000

Cool! I had heard of a récamier before, but had no idea where the term originated.