Editing Jacques-Louis David (section)

==Exile and death==
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[[Image:Francois-Joseph Navez-Louis David mg 3031.jpg|thumb|right|David during his exile, in 1817, painted by his pupil [[François-Joseph Navez]]]]
[[File:Jaques-louis david comte.tif|left|thumb|''Comte Henri-Amédée-Mercure de Turenne-d'Aynac'', 1816, oil on canvas. [[Clark Art Institute]]; painted while both the Comte and David were in exile]]
On the [[House of Bourbon|Bourbons]] returning to power, David figured in the list of proscribed former revolutionaries and Bonapartists for having voted execution for the deposed King Louis XVI; and for participating in the death of [[Louis XVII]], the deposed king's son who was mistreated, starved and forced into a false confession of incest with his mother, Queen [[Marie Antoinette]], which contributed to her death sentence.

The newly restored Bourbon King, Louis XVIII, however, granted amnesty to David and even offered him the position of court painter. David refused, preferring self-exile in Brussels. There, he trained and influenced Brussels artists such as [[François-Joseph Navez]] and [[Ignace Brice]], painted ''Cupid and Psyche'' and quietly lived the remainder of his life with his wife (whom he had remarried). In that time, he painted smaller-scale mythological scenes, and portraits of citizens of Brussels and Napoleonic émigrés, such as the Baron Gerard.

David created his last great work, ''[[Mars Being Disarmed by Venus|Mars Being Disarmed by Venus and the Three Graces]]'', from 1822 to 1824. In December 1823, he wrote: "This is the last picture I want to paint, but I want to surpass myself in it. I will put the date of my seventy-five years on it and afterwards I will never again pick up my brush." The finished painting—evoking painted porcelain because of its limpid coloration—was exhibited first in Brussels, then in Paris, where his former students flocked to view it.

[[File:Jacques-Louis David - Mars désarmé par Vénus.jpg|thumb|''[[Mars Being Disarmed by Venus|Mars Being Disarmed by Venus and the Three Graces]]'', David's last great work (1824)]] 
The exhibition was profitable—13,000 francs, after deducting operating costs, thus, more than 10,000 people visited and viewed the painting. In his later years, David remained in full command of his artistic faculties, even after a stroke in the spring of 1825 disfigured his face and slurred his speech. In June 1825, he resolved to embark on an improved version of his ''[[The Anger of Achilles]]'' (also known as the ''Sacrifice of Iphigenie''); the earlier version was completed in 1819 and is now in the collection of the [[Kimbell Art Museum]] in [[Fort Worth, Texas]]. David remarked to his friends who visited his studio "this [painting] is what is killing me" such was his determination to complete the work, but by October it must have already been well advanced, as his former pupil Gros wrote to congratulate him, having heard reports of the painting's merits. By the time David died, the painting had been completed and the commissioner Ambroise Firmin-Didot brought it back to Paris to include it in the exhibition "Pour les grecs" that he had organised and which opened in Paris in April 1826.
[[File:Death mask of Jacques-Louis David, 1825.JPG|thumb|upright=0.4|left|David's [[death mask]] (1825)]]
When David was leaving a theater, the driver of a carriage struck him, and he later died, on 29 December 1825. At his death, some portraits were auctioned in Paris, they sold for little; the famous ''Death of Marat'' was exhibited in a secluded room, to avoid outraging public sensibilities. Disallowed return to France for burial, for having been a regicide of King Louis XVI, the body of the painter Jacques-Louis David was buried in Brussels and moved in 1882 to [[Grave of Jacques-Louis David|Brussels Cemetery]], while some say his heart was buried with his wife at [[Père Lachaise Cemetery]], Paris.