Title: The Death of Socrates
Object type: Drawing
Date: ca. 1786
Artist:  Jacques Louis David 
Artist bio: French, Paris 1748–1825 Brussels
Artist nationality: French
Artist role: Artist
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
Credit line: Purchase, Walter and Leonore Annenberg Acquisitions Endowment Fund and Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill and Mark Fisch and Rachel Davidson Gifts, 2015
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Socrates, term: Men, term: Death