# The Death of Socrates

- By: Jacques Louis David (French, Paris 1748–1825 Brussels)
- Date: 1787
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: 51 x 77 1/4 in. (129.5 x 196.2 cm)
- Culture: French
- Credit line: Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1931
- Museum: [The Metropolitan Museum of Art](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436105)
- Rights: [Public domain (Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ep/web-large/DP-13139-001.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)