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Jacques Louis David

The Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of his Sons

1787
Black chalk, pen and black and brown ink, brush and gray and brown wash, heightened with white gouache
33.2 × 42.1 cm (13.1 × 16.6 in)

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