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The Death of Socrates by Jacques Louis David

The Metropolitan Museum of Art — Public Domain

Jacques Louis DavidFrench

The Death of Socrates, 1787

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
129.5 × 196.2 cm
Category
Painting
Location
Paris
Availability
For sale
€360,000

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About the work

Socrates calmly reaches for the cup of hemlock while expounding on the soul's immortality, surrounded by grieving disciples. A defining manifesto of Neoclassical painting.

NeoclassicismHistory Painting

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