The Death of Socrates

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The Death of Socrates

Artist : Jacques-Louis David

Model : Socrate

Date : 1787

Material : Oil on canvas
Acquisition : Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection (1931)

Metropolitan Museum of Art
David, Creuze, Vig?e le Brun
Center - First Floor - Section 2

Item 3 on 23
French Painting
Painting (Th?me historique)

Area related
Paris (France)

Athènes (Greece)

Site related :
David et ses élèves

Description

The printmaker and publisher John Boydell wrote to Sir Joshua Reynolds that "it was the greatest effort of art science since the Sistine Chapel and the stanze of Raphael ... This work would have done honour to Athens at the time of Pericles".

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Item(s) related

British Museum :
The Hellenistic world

Sokrates
Tête
Anonyme

Louvre Museum :
Prud'hon

Socrate arrache Alcibiade du sein de la Volupté
Tableau historique
Jean-Baptiste Regnault
1791

Répliques antiques d'après des originaux grecs de l'époque hellénistique

Portrait de Socrate
Tête
Anonyme et Lysippe de Sicyone
Ist century

Museum of Pergamum :
Room

Buste of Socrates
Buste
Epoque impériale romaine
Anonyme
approx. from IInd to IIIrd century