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Pierre Charles Coqueret
French, 1761 - 1832
After Guillaume Lethière
French, 1760 - 1832
Brutus Condemning His Sons to Death
1794
Pierre Coqueret’s engraving after Guillaume Lethière’s Brutus Condemning His Sons to Death was made in advance of the exhibition of Lethière’s drawing of the same subject at the Paris Salon of 1795. The violence of the execution is more subdued in the engraving. The scourge and birch rod, instruments of torture used before execution, are present in the foreground but veiled by the same white cloth used to cover the decapitated body of Brutus’s son at the center of the composition.
Image Caption
Pierre Charles Coqueret, Brutus Condemning His Sons to Death, 1794, Stipple engraving on laid paper. Clark Art Institute, 2018.1.3
Medium
Stipple engraving on laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 22 1/2 × 38 3/4 in. (57.2 × 98.4 cm)
Sheet: 27 × 42 1/2 in. (68.6 × 108 cm)
Frame: 31 1/16 × 46 in. (78.9 × 116.8 cm)
Object Number
2018.1.3
Acquisition
Acquired by the Clark, 2018
Status
Off View
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