Necklines: The Art of Jacques-Louis David After the Terror

by Ewa Lajer-Burcharth

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This book examines the crucial period in the painter's career as he struggled to save his neck and recast his identity in the aftermath of the Reign of Terror. Burcharth assesses his works in the context of the larger cultural and social formations emerging in France concluding with an interpretation of the unfinished portrait of Juliette Recamier.
  • ISBN10 0300074212
  • ISBN13 9780300074215
  • Publish Date 11 October 1999
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 20 September 2012
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Yale University Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 384
  • Language English