Crito
Jacques Louis David
ca. 1786–87
Medium
Black chalk, stumped, heightened with white chalk, squared in black chalk
Dimensions
Sheet: 21 1/8 × 16 5/16 in. (53.6 × 41.4 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1961
Accession Number
61.161.1
Tags
Men
About the Artist
Jacques Louis David · 1748–1825
Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825), born in Paris on August 30 to a prosperous family, faced early tragedy when his father was killed in a duel around age nine. Raised by his mother's two architect uncles after his mother departed, David overcame family resistance to architecture and a facial tumor that hindered his speech and studies at the Collège des Quatre-Nations. He began training under the Roc...