Study for 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, Sheet: 13 1/16 x 16 9/16 in. (33. 2 x 42. 1 cm), Drawings, Jacques Louis David (French, Paris 1748?1825 Brussels), This sheet is a compositional study for The Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of His Sons, which Jacques Louis David painted on the eve of the French Revolution and exhibited shortly after the fall of the Bastille in 1789