In 1791, the French painter Jacques Louis David made a large, meticulously detailed drawing for a painting he never produced, called “The Oath of the Tennis Court.” It depicts a key moment ...

It all sounds like children’s story hour in the shadow of Jacques-Louis David ... Image Studies by David for “The Oath of the Tennis Court,” circa 1790–91. The figure gripping his chest ...

In 1883, it became the Museum of the French Revolution, including Luc-Olivier Merson’s monumental painting, The Tennis Court Oath, based on an unfinished 1791 work by Jacques-Louis David.

The Tennis Court Oath in June ... the National Assembly. In the oath, they vowed not to separate until they established a constitution. Jacques-Louis David/Wikimedia Commons The French ...

Jacques-Louis David painted his only landscape as the guillotine loomed ... In the late 1780s he painted three canvases that had a real influence on the form of the early revolution. The Oath of the ...