"Jacques-Louis David Meets Kehinde Wiley" at Brooklyn Museum Challenges the History of Western Portraiture

For the first time ever, Kehinde Wiley's iconic Napoleon Leading the Army over the Alps (2005) painting is now on view alongside its original inspiration, Jacques-Louis David's Bonaparte Crossing the Alps (1800-1), in a new exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum in partnership with Musée national des châteaux de Malmaison et Bois-Préau. Titled "Jacques-Louis David Meets Kehinde Wiley," the exhibition pits the artists' two impactful works against each other in order to explore "how ideas of race, m...