The Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of his Sons, by Jacques Louis David, 1787
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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

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