Kehinde Wiley
JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID MEETS KEHINDE WILEY– SOLO SHOW

Brooklyn Museum, New York, United States
January 24–May 10, 2020

Kehinde Wiley’s triumphant Napoleon Leading the Army over the Alps (2005), a hallmark of the collection of the Brooklyn Museum, comes face to face with the nineteenth-century painting on which it is based: Jacques-Louis David’s Bonaparte Crossing the Alps (1800–1). Seen together, the works by David and Wiley reveal how race, masculinity, power, and representation layer onto portraiture and shape the writing of history.