"I think David got at some essential aspect of being a parent."
Curator Perrin Stein on "The Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of his Sons"
by Jacques Louis David.
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Jacques Louis-David: The Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of his Sons
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How Jacques Louis David's study of Brutus gives you permission to be subjective
"I think David got at some essential aspect of being a parent."
Perrin Stein
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Perrin Stein
Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints
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Jacques Louis David
1787