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

by The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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.

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David, The Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons

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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 May 30, 2023, https://smarthistory.org/jacques-louis-david-study-for-the-lictors-bringing-brutus-the-bodies-of-his-sons/.