# Jacques-Louis David artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T14:49:03.200Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: French
- Movements: Neoclassicism
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Jacques-Louis David](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/David_Self_Portrait.jpg/1280px-David_Self_Portrait.jpg)
Jacques-Louis David · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:David_Self_Portrait.jpg

## About Jacques-Louis David

Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825) was a French painter and the leading figure associated with Neoclassicism in the supplied references. During the 1780s, his history painting helped redirect taste away from Rococo toward a more austere classical language. His career also intersected with the French Revolution and the Napoleonic period, contexts that made historical subjects central to his public reputation. Portraiture forms another important part of his documented practice, as does his self-portrait, represented here by a public-domain Wikimedia image. Collectors encounter David through museum collections, scholarly and library authority records, and auction records connected with his name. Because the name of a celebrated artist can appear in varied catalogue descriptions, entity matching should remain separate from object-level attribution. The present source pack strongly establishes David’s identity, French nationality, lifespan by year, occupation, and Neoclassical context, while leaving his exact life dates and detailed auction-category breakdown unresolved.

## Common works and media

Collectors are most likely to encounter references to David as a painter, particularly in connection with Neoclassical history painting and portraiture. His documented self-portrait also confirms portrait painting within his practice. This source pack does not provide a reliable auction breakdown for original paintings, drawings, prints, workshop objects, copies, or later reproductions, so the frequency or market standing of those categories should not be generalized from the available evidence.

## Market and appraisal context

The source pack confirms public auction-price coverage for Jacques-Louis David on Appraisily but does not include fetched lot-level evidence or commentary from a major auction house. Accordingly, no general price trend or category-specific premium is asserted. For an appraisal, available public records should be assessed through comparable lots, including their sale dates, realized prices, catalogued work types, and relevance to the object under review. The research supports painting, history painting, and portraiture as useful classification terms, but it does not establish a market hierarchy among them or authenticate any individual work.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83155
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500115221
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/66575297/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50035639
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques-Louis_David
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques-Louis_David
- Wikipedia: https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques-Louis_David
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/jacques-louis-david/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:David_Self_Portrait.jpg