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Genre
Documentary
Copyright
1989
Length
32 minutes
Producer(s)
Serge Lalou, Les Films d’Ici ; Dominique Païni, Musée du Louvre
Co-producer(s)
Direction des musées de France
Selections / Awards
Special Mention at the 2nd International Biennale of Films on Art, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 1990
This film is based on a study of Jacques-Louis David's popular painting The Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of his Sons (1789), commissioned by the Bâtiments du Roi (Royal Household) for the Salon of 1787. The documentary, which explores the life and commitment of this great neoclassical painter of the French Revolution, was made on the occasion of the exhibition "The Sublime and the Ferocious: David's Brutus" (Musée du Louvre, October 26, 1989–February 12, 1990), curated by Antoine Schnapper and Arlette Sérullaz.