The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Study for The Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of his Sons

Study for The Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of his Sons

Date:: 1787
Medium:: Black chalk, pen and black and brown ink, brush and gray and brown wash, heightened with white gouache
Dimensions:: sheet: 13 1/16 x 16 9/16 in. (33.2 x 42.1 cm)
Classification:: Drawings
Credit Line:: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 2006
Accession Number:: 2006.264

This artwork is not on display

Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Signature: in pen and black ink at lower left, "L David./ 1787."

Inscription: in pen and black ink on plinth, "DEA ROMA:, and just below, in pen and brown ink on the pedestal, "FUGAT[obscured]S. REGIBUS." (The goddess Rome, after the kings have been put to flight)
Provenance

Vendor: Katrin Bellinger Kunsthandel , Munich
References

"The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin" Recent Acquisitions: A Selection: 2006-2007. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2007, p. 35, ill.

Perrin Stein "Crafting the Neoclassical: Two new Drawings for Jacques-Louis David's 'The Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of His Sons" Master Drawings. XLVII, 2009, fig. no. 13, pp. 226--34, ill.
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