The Death of Socrates
ca. 1786
Medium
Pen and black ink, over black chalk, touches of pen and brown ink; squared in black chalk
Dimensions
Sheet: 11 in. × 16 3/8 in. (27.9 × 41.6 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Walter and Leonore Annenberg Acquisitions Endowment Fund and Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill and Mark Fisch and Rachel Davidson Gifts, 2015
Accession Number
2015.149
Tags
About the Artist
Jacques Louis David · 1748–1825
Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825), born in Paris on August 30 to a prosperous family, faced early tragedy when his father was killed in a duel around age nine. Raised by his mother's two architect uncles after his mother departed, David overcame family resistance to architecture and a facial tumor that hindered his speech and studies at the Collège des Quatre-Nations. He began training under the Roc...