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Abstract
The controversy concerning the nudity of the male protagonists in David's Intervention of the Sabines (1799) can be understood only by interrogating the wider gender politics of nudity à la grecque in Directory France. At stake in the scandal of nudity was not only classicism but the Republic. By the late 1790s, neither could be disengaged from anxieties about fashion, women's sexuality, and women's viewing.
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Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby
Assistant professor of history of art at U.C. Berkeley, Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby is currently working on a book entitled Extremities in Paint: Representing Empire in Post-Revolutionary France (1789–1830). Her essay “Rumor, Contagion and Colonization in Gros's Plague-Stricken of Jaffa (1804)” was published in Representations 51 (Summer 1995). [History of Art Department, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, Calif. 94720]