- Title
- The Oath of Brutus
- Date Made
- circa 1771
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Canvas: 25 7/8 × 31 5/8 in. (65.72 × 80.33 cm)
Frame: 30 × 36 × 2 in. (76.2 × 91.44 × 5.08 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.2000.179.18
- Collecting Area
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Provenance
Barnett Hollander, London, in 1970. Andrew S. Ciechanowiecki (1924-2015), London, by 1973, sold 2000 to; LACMA.
- Selected Bibliography
- Marandel, J. Patrice. French oil sketches from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 17th century - 19th century. Los Angeles: The Ahmanson Foundation, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2002.
- Rosenblum, Robert., 1961, "Gavin Hamilton's Brutus' and its Aftermath." Burlington Magazine 103, no. 694 (1961):
- Seznec, Jean, and Jean Adhémar, eds. Diderot, Salons. 4 vols., Oxford, The Clarendon Press, vol. 4 (1957-1967)
- Rosenblum, Robert. “A Source for David’s ‘Horatii.'" Burlington Magazine 112 (1970): 273
- Lee, Virginia. “Jacques-Louis David: The Versailles Sketchbook, II.” Burlington Magazine 111, no. 795 (1969)
- Brookner, A. Jacques-Louis David. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1980
- Rosenthal, Donald A. La grande manière, historical and religious painting in France, 1700-1800. Rochester, New York : Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, 1987
- Rosenberg, Pierre. The Age of Louis XV : French painting 1710-1774. Toledo, Ohio : Toledo Museum of Art, 1975.
- Council of Europe. The Age of Neo-Classicism: A Handlist to the Fourteenth Exhibition of the Council of Europe [held at] the Royal Academy and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1972
- Bailey, Colin B. ed. The First painters of the king : French royal taste from Louis XIV to the Revolution. New York : Stair Sainty Matthiesen, 1985.
- Du Pont de Nemours, P.S., "Lettres sur les Salons de 1773, 1777 et 1779 adressées par Du Pont de Nemours à la Margravine Caroline-Louise de Bade." Archives de l'Art Français, nouvelle périod, vol.2 (1908)
- Rosenberg, Pierre, and Antoine Schnapper. “Beaufort’s Brutus.” Burlington Magazine 112, no. 812 (1970):
- Walch, Peter, , Joanna R. Barnes, J. Patrice Marandel. French Oil Sketches and the Academic Tradition. New York : American Federation of Arts in association with the University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994.
- Marandel, J. Patrice. French Oil Sketches from an English Collection, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries 1973-1975. Houston, TX: The Museum of Fine Arts, 1975.
- Lehmbeck, Leah, editor. Gifts of European Art from The Ahmanson Foundation. Vol. 2, French Painting and Sculpture. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2019.
- Esguerra, Clarissa, and Michaela Hansen. Lee Alexander McQueen: Mind, Mythos, Muse. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2022.
- Esguerra, Clarissa M., Michaela Hansen, Katie Somerville, and Danielle Whitfield, editors. Alexander McQueen: Mind, Mythos, Muse. Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria; Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2022.
