The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Jacques Louis David
The Death of Socrates
1787
A verified collection highlight at The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Jacques Louis David, 1787. Oil on canvas.
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Jacques Louis David
Jacques-Louis David was the preeminent Neoclassical master whose austere, heroic history paintings championed the French Revolution and documented the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte with severe classical clarity.
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