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The Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of his Sons
Jacques Louis David (French, Paris 1748–1825 Brussels)
1787
- Medium
- Black chalk, pen and black and brown ink, brush and gray and brown wash, heightened with white gouache
- Classification
- Drawings
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 13 1/16 x 16 9/16 in. (33.2 x 42.1 cm)
- Culture
- French
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 2006
- Rights
- Public domain (Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed