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Study of Two Trumpeters

Jacques Louis David
1748-1825

Study of Two Trumpeters

6 3/4 x 4 1/8 inches (171 x 105 mm)
Pencil on gray laid paper.
2003.29

Gift of John M. Thayer.

Notes
This drawing is a study for the two trumpeters in the painting Leonidas at Thermopylae (Musée du Louvre, Paris), begun in 1804 and finished in 1814.
Inscriptions/Markings
Numbered in pen and brown ink at upper right, "32"; signed in pen and brown ink with paraphs of Eugene (Lugt 839) and Jules (Lugt 1437) David.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department