The Death of Camilla
Jacques Louis David
ca. 1781
Medium
Black chalk, brush and gray wash
Dimensions
14 7/16 x 15 9/16 in. (36.7 x 39.5 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Joan K. Davidson, in memory of her mother, Alice M. Kaplan, 1998
Accession Number
1998.203
Tags
SoldiersShieldsWomen
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...