Study for the Wife and Daughters of Brutus (recto); Study of a Male Nude (verso)
Jacques Louis David
ca. 1788
Medium
Red chalk
Dimensions
Sheet: 9 1/16 x 7 5/16 in. (23 x 18.5 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Robert Gordon Gift, 2007
Accession Number
2007.450a, b
Tags
Female Nudes
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...