# The Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of his Sons

- By: Jacques Louis David (French, Paris 1748–1825 Brussels)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 2006
- Museum: [The Metropolitan Museum of Art](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/371418)
- Rights: [Public domain (Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/dp/web-large/DP213752.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)