David's painting The Oath of the Horatii conveyed a call to revolutionary action.
David's Oath of the Horatii illustrates three men, brothers, saluting toward three swords held up by their father as the women behind him grieve. The revolutionary painting changed French.
Jacques-Louis David painted the Oath of the Horatii in 1784 and now on display in the Louvre in Paris. The painting immediately turnt into a huge success with critics and the public, and remains one of the most famous paintings in the Neoclassical style.