Artwork

Woman with a Raised Hand, from the Villa Medici

Woman with a Raised Hand, from the Villa Medici, by Jacques-Louis David, ink, 1778
Woman with a Raised Hand, from the Villa Medici, by Jacques-Louis David, ink, 1778

Woman with a Raised Hand, from the Villa Medici is an ink drawing by the Neoclassicist artist Jacques-Louis David. It dates from 1778 and is held in the collection of the National Gallery of Art.

Artist & collection

Portrait of Jacques-Louis David

Artist

Jacques-Louis David

Jacques-Louis David was born in Paris on 30 August 1748 into a bourgeois family; his father died in a duel when the boy was nine, and a maternal uncle guided his education.

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