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Join Curator Perrin Stein for a virtual tour of Jacques Louis David: Radical Draftsman, the first exhibition devoted to works on paper by the celebrated French artist.
In Jacques Louis David’s The Death of Socrates (1787), a parable of principle on the eve of the French Revolution.
Technical examination of Jacques Louis David’s masterpiece reveals that the refinements seen in the artist’s preparatory drawings didn’t end when he began painting—rather, they continued through all stages of its execution.