The Death of Socrates, by Jacques Louis David, 1787
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The Death of Socrates

Jacques Louis David (French, Paris 1748–1825 Brussels)

1787

Medium
Oil on canvas
Classification
Paintings
Dimensions
51 x 77 1/4 in. (129.5 x 196.2 cm)
Culture
French
Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, European Paintings
Credit line
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1931
Rights
Public domain (Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

View at the The Metropolitan Museum of Art