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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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"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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Photography by Joseph Coscia, Jr.

Jacques Louis-David: The Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of his Sons
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Perrin Stein
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The Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of his Sons, Jacques Louis David French, Black chalk, pen and black and brown ink, brush and gray and brown wash, heightened with white gouache
The Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of his Sons
Jacques Louis David
1787