The Legislator in Office
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
sheet: 15 5/8 x 10 3/16 in. (39.7 x 25.9 cm) plate: 10 3/16 x 6 7/16 in. (25.9 x 16.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1953
Accession Number
53.529.11
Tags
About the Artist
Jacques Louis David|baron Dominique Vivant Denon · 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...