Frieze in the Antique Style: Death of a Hero

1780

Not on view

Returned to lender

This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.

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Title: Frieze in the Antique Style: Death of a Hero
Artist: Jacques Louis David (French, Paris 1748–1825 Brussels)
Date: 1780
Medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, black chalk, heightened with white gouache, with framing lines in pen and brown ink, on three joined sheets of faded blue paper and a fourth strip added at right
Dimensions: Sheet: 10 1/2 × 29 3/16 in. (26.6 × 74.2 cm)
Frame: 19 5/16 × 38 9/16 × 1 3/8 in. (49 × 98 × 3.5 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Musée de Grenoble (MG 2615)
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints