Detail from Le Serment du Jeu de paume Jacques-Louis David, 1791. The Tennis Court Oath of June 1789. This marked the founding event of the French Revolution. On 20 June 1789, the members of the French Estates-General for the Third Estate, who had begun to call themselves the National Assembly, took the Tennis Court Oath (French: Serment du Jeu de Paume), vowing "not to separate, and to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the constitution of the kingdom is established. On the unfinished canvas, the suggested nudity under the clothes still contributes to the idealization of the sce
Detail from Le Serment du Jeu de paume Jacques-Louis David, 1791. The Tennis Court Oath of June 1789. This marked the founding event of the French Revolution. On 20 June 1789, the members of the French Estates-General for the Third Estate, who had begun to call themselves the National Assembly, took the Tennis Court Oath (French: Serment du Jeu de Paume), vowing "not to separate, and to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the constitution of the kingdom is established. On the unfinished canvas, the suggested nudity under the clothes still contributes to the idealization of the scene, which David did not attend, but which he wished to hoist to the rank of a universal act. All eyes converge on Bailly, mayor of Paris, sketched on the white pencil canvas, like all the still naked figures. It is Bailly, dean of the third estate, who answers to the Marquis de Dreux-Breze, emissary of the king
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