Artist: Jacques-Louis David
Period: Neoclassicism
Genre: History painting
Location: The Louvre
Media: Oil paint
Created: 1784
It was commissioned by the Administrator of Royal Residences in 1784 and exhibited at the 1785 Salon
The story was taken from Titus-Livy. The story describes a dispute between the two cities of Rome and Alba, in 669 B.C. must be settled by an unusual form of combat to be fought by two groups the Horatii and Curiatii
One of the women on the right is Camilla who is engaged to one of the Curiatii brother. The two women cling to each other in grief knowing they will either lose a brother or a husband
Comte d'Angiviller who specified that it should be an allegory about loyalty to the state and the king but David painted a different picture, set in republican Rome, with no king involved.
Comte d'Angiviller was the director of the Bâtiments du Roi, a forerunner of a minister of fine arts in charge of the royal building works, under Louis XVI of France, from 1775.
Period: Neoclassicism
Genre: History painting
Location: The Louvre
Media: Oil paint
Created: 1784
It was commissioned by the Administrator of Royal Residences in 1784 and exhibited at the 1785 Salon
The story was taken from Titus-Livy. The story describes a dispute between the two cities of Rome and Alba, in 669 B.C. must be settled by an unusual form of combat to be fought by two groups the Horatii and Curiatii
One of the women on the right is Camilla who is engaged to one of the Curiatii brother. The two women cling to each other in grief knowing they will either lose a brother or a husband
Comte d'Angiviller who specified that it should be an allegory about loyalty to the state and the king but David painted a different picture, set in republican Rome, with no king involved.
Comte d'Angiviller was the director of the Bâtiments du Roi, a forerunner of a minister of fine arts in charge of the royal building works, under Louis XVI of France, from 1775.