Paris and Helen
ca. 1782–86
Medium
Black chalk
Dimensions
Sheet: 9 in. × 11 3/4 in. (22.9 × 29.8 cm) Framed: 19 1/4 × 22 3/8 in. (48.9 × 56.8 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Victoria Munroe, 2022
Accession Number
2022.415.2
Rights
Public Domain
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...