Shop art print and framed art Le serment du Jeu de Paume, 20 juin 1789 by Luc Olivier Merson

The Oath of the Jeu de Paume is an unfinished painting by Jacques-Louis David, painted between 1791 and 1792. This ambitious canvas was intended to immortalise the event that took place in the Salle du Jeu de Paume in Versailles. As a result of the political upheavals that punctuated the Revolution and the difficulties in financing the project, the painter was never able to complete his work, which remained in the sketch stage. It was painted in white chalk, black stone and oil on canvas. Only the studies for the painting were completed. The first engravings depicting The Oath of the Jeu de Paume did not appear until 1790, when Jacques-Louis David convinced the Société des Amis de la Constitution, known as the Jacobin Club, to launch a national subscription to finance a painting on this founding event of the French Revolution. The painter exhibited a pen and ink drawing of his future painting in his studio in the Louvre in 1791, but was unable to go ahead due to a lack of funds, as the subscription only raised 10% of the expected sum. The Constituante then decided to finance his work at the expense of the "Trésor Public", a sum supplemented by the sale of engravings taken from the painting. David set up his studio in the former conventual church of the Feuillants in the rue Saint-Honoré so that he could pose the deputies sitting in the nearby Salle du Manège, but in 1793, busy with his work as a deputy, he had only completed the sketch for the lower part of his gigantic [...]

 

This artwork is a painting from the classical period. It belongs to the neoclassicism style.

 

« Le serment du Jeu de Paume, 20 juin 1789 » is kept at Musée et Domaine National de Versailles et de Trianon, Versailles, France.

 

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