Transcriber’s Note: Italics are enclosed in _underscores_. Additional notes will be found near the end of this ebook. [Illustration: MLLE. CHARLOTTE DU VAL D’OGNES _The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York_] JACQUES LOUIS DAVID AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION BY W. R. VALENTINER [Illustration] NEW YORK FREDERIC FAIRCHILD SHERMAN MCMXXIX Copyright, 1929, by Frederic F. Sherman TO ELEANOR AND EDSEL B. FORD ILLUSTRATIONS MLLE. CHARLOTTE DU VAL D’OGNES Frontispiece FIG. 1 MADAME DE SERVAN (1799) 3 FIG. 2 H. RIGAUD: GENTLEMAN PLAYING A BAGPIPE 3 FIG. 3 F. BOUCHER: MADAME DE POMPADOUR 3 FIG. 4 MINERVA’S CONQUEST OF MARS (1771) 4 FIG. 5 THE BLIND BELISARIUS (1781) 8 FIG. 6 THE OATH OF THE HORATII (1784) 8 FIG. 7 VILLAGE OUTSIDE ROME (1788) 8 FIG. 8 VIEW IN ROME (1788) 8 FIG. 9 PEN SKETCH OF MARIE ANTOINETTE (1793) _Made from the artist’s window as the tumbril halted on the way to the scaffold_ 14 FIG. 10 STUDY FROM THE ITALIAN SKETCHBOOK (1788) 14 FIG. 11 MICHEL GÉRARD AND HIS FAMILY (1789) 18 FIG. 12 PORTRAIT OF BARÊRE (1793) 22 FIG. 13 LAVOISIER AND HIS WIFE (1787) 26 FIG. 14 MME. DE RICHMOND AND HER SON (_c._ 1800) 26 FIG. 15 LE PELLETIER (1793) _From engraving in the Louvre_ 26 FIG. 16 MARAT (1793) 26 FIG. 17 DANTON (1799) _From drawing in the Museum, Lille_ 26 FIG. 18 MADAME SERIZIAT AND SON (1795) 32 FIG. 19 MONSIEUR SERIZIAT (1795) 32 FIG. 20 MARAT (1793) 38 FIG. 21 ST. JUST (1792) 44 FIG. 22 SELF PORTRAIT 44 FIG. 23 WOMAN OF THE REVOLUTION (1795) 51 FIG. 24 NAPOLEON AS FIRST CONSUL (1797) 51 FIG. 25 PORTRAIT OF VIGÉE LEBRUN (1793) 54 FIG. 26 MADAME RECAMIER (1800) 54 FIG. 27 INGRES AS A BOY (1795) 54