Title: Study for The Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of his Sons
Object type: Drawing
Date: ca. 1788
Artist:  Jacques Louis David 
Artist bio: French, Paris 1748–1825 Brussels
Artist nationality: French
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Black chalk and brown ink on paper
Dimensions: 9 7/16 x 12 1/8 in.  (23.9 x 30.8 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Department: Robert Lehman Collection
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Human Figures, term: Sadness