“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 from 1787.
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Perrin Stein
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Perrin Stein
Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints
Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints
Photography by Joseph Coscia, Jr.
Jacques Louis-David: The Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of his Sons
© RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY
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Jacques Louis David
1787
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