Galerie Mont Oath of the Horatii – Jacques-Louis David^ David

The “Oath of the Horatii” is a work commissioned by Louis XVI. The painting depicts the Horatii brothers swearing an oath to their father to defeat or die in defense of Rome against the Curiatii. Jacques-Louis David imagined this oath after the stories of the battle, present in several legendary accounts of ancient Rome, with the idea of representing the notion of patriotism.

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