Leonidas at Thermopylae
Jacques-Louis David, 1814
From €29Museum-quality print, also on canvas and framed.
Frequently asked questions
Which size should I choose?
This work is available in 30 × 40 cm, 50 × 70 cm, 70 × 100 cm. As a guide: 30 × 40 cm (about 12 × 16 in) for shelves, corners or gallery walls; 50 × 70 cm (about 20 × 28 in) above a dresser, a headboard or a desk; 70 × 100 cm (about 28 × 39 in) as the centrepiece of a living room or the wall above the sofa. Below the buy buttons you can see it to scale above a 2-metre sofa.
Does it come framed?
The print arrives unframed with a white border, ready to frame. If you choose a black or oak frame, it arrives mounted behind acrylic glazing, ready to hang. Canvases come stretched on a wooden frame.
When will it arrive?
Printed to order at the lab closest to your address. It arrives in 4–8 working days in Spain and the EU, and in 6–12 working days in the US, Mexico and other destinations.
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Can I send it as a gift?
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About the work
- Artist
- Jacques-Louis David
- Date
- 1814
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 3,95 m × 5,31 m
- Collection
- Musée du Louvre, Department of Paintings (Paris)
- Print up to
- 70 × 100 cm
- Reference
- XDV-2350
What the museum label doesn't tell you
Nobody in this painting is looking at the same thing. On the left a warrior gets crowned with laurel, in the center a man carves names into stone, above them a trumpet sounds, a boy climbs a tree to see better. And right in the middle: Leonidas, seated, almost absent, staring at no battle at all. His contemporaries noticed it too - the hero sits outside the action, as if David had painted the waiting rather than the epic. Makes sense: when Napoleon, as First Consul, asked what he was working on, David said he was painting the defeat at Thermopylae - the very episode Bonaparte had told him to avoid. Finished in 1814, months before the empire collapsed, the picture seems to know something the painter perhaps didn't want to say out loud.
