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DAVID, Jacques-Louis: Self-Portrait

🖼 Self-Portrait, c. 1790
Oil on canvas
63 × 52 cm
Moscow, Russia

Intense scrutiny marks this portrait, rendered in neoclassical precision with sharp light modeling the artist's austere features. David captures himself at the height of Revolutionary fervor, presenting an intellectual revolutionary whose unflinching gaze defines late 18th-century French artistic authority.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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