Leonidas at Thermopylae

*Leonidas at Thermopylae*

Artist	Jacques-Louis David
Year	1814
Type	oil on canvas
Dimensions	395 cm × 531 cm (156 in × 209 in)
Location	Louvre

Leonidas at Thermopylae is an 1814 painting by Jacques-Louis David now on show at the Louvre. It shows the Spartan king Leonidas prior to the Battle of Thermopylae. David's pupil Georges Rouget collaborated on it.

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)

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