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

The Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of his Sons

Jacques-Louis David (French) (1748-1825)

Movement
Neoclassicism
Date
1787
Medium
Black chalk, pen and black and brown ink, brush and gray and brown wash, heightened with white gouache
Dimensions
33.2 × 42.1 cm (sheet)
Collection
Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States
Rights
Public domain
Photograph
Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC0

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