Diana and Apollo Killing Niobe's Children

Diana and Apollo Killing Niobe's Children is a 1772 painting by Jacques-Louis David, now in the Dallas Museum of Art. He produced it to compete for the Prix de Rome. In the Rococo style which marked his early period, it was emblematic of the conflict between David and the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture jury, which refused him the prize followed a pre-arranged vote.

Bibliography

• Marie-Catherine Sahut et Michel, David : l'art et le politique, Paris, Découvertes Gallimard, 1989 (ISBN 2-07-053068-X)
• Sophie Monneret, David et le néoclassicisme, Paris, Terrail, 1998 (ISBN 2879391865)

External links

• http://alaintruong.canalblog.com/archives/2008/02/27/8122757.html

Jacques-Louis David Works Portrait of François Buron (1769) Minerva Fighting Mars (1771) Diana and Apollo Killing Niobe's Children (1772) The Death of Seneca (1773) Erasistratus Discovering the Cause of Antiochus' Disease (1774) The Funeral Games of Patroclus (1778) Portrait of Count Stanislas Potocki (1780) Belisarius Begging for Alms (1781) Christ on the Cross (1782) Oath of the Horatii (1784) The Death of Socrates (1787) Portrait of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and his wife (1788) The Loves of Paris and Helen (1788) The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons (1789) The Death of Marat (1793) Self-portrait (1794) Psyche Abandoned (1795) The Intervention of the Sabine Women (1799) Portrait of Madame Récamier (1800) Napoleon at the Saint-Bernard Pass (1800-1805) Portrait of Pope Pius VII (1805) The Coronation of Napoleon (1807) Leonidas at Thermopylae (1814) Napoleon in His Study (1812) Mars Being Disarmed by Venus (1824)