David, Study for The Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of his Sons


Jacques-Louis David, Study for The Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of his Sons, 1787, black chalk, pen and black and brown ink, brush and gray and brown wash, heightened with white gouache,  13 1/16 x 16 9/16″ / 33.2 x 42.1 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York). Video from The Metropolitan Museum of Art.


Additional resources:

View this work on The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s website


Smarthistory images for teaching and learning:

[flickr_tags user_id=”82032880@N00″ tags=”Lictors,”]

More Smarthistory images…

Cite this page as: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, "David, Study for The Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of his Sons," in Smarthistory, January 25, 2016, accessed March 19, 2024, https://smarthistory.org/jacques-louis-david-study-for-the-lictors-bringing-brutus-the-bodies-of-his-sons/.