The Death of Socrates — Jacques Louis David, 1787

The Death of Socrates, Jacques Louis David

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Iconclass: 98B(SOCRATES)68
Holder's headings: Socrates, Men, Lyres
Wikidata depicts: Plato, Socrates, man, suicide, stairs, bed, sadness, Conium maculatum, torch, robe, scroll, chain, forced suicide, trial of Socrates

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Credit: Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1931
Licence: CC0-1.0
Evidence: metmuseum.org collection api v1: isPublicDomain=true on object 436105 (read 2026-09-01)
Record: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436105

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