Antoine Schnapper

Antoine Schnapper (10 July 1933 – 29 August 2004) of German descent, was a French art historian on art of the 18th century. A student of André Chastel, he organised many retrospectives on artists of that period, notably one at the Louvre in 1989 on Jacques-Louis David to commemorate the bicentenary of the French Revolution. He taught at the université de Paris IV.