The Death of Socrates ca. 1782 Jacques Louis David French This sheet is an early exploration of the subject that Jacques Louis David would later treat in his 1787 painting, The Death of Socrates 31.45, which entered the Mets collection in 1931. It is essentially a tracing or re-drawing of a looser sketch in a private collection (Rosenberg-Prat, 2002, I, no.52, pp.71-72) which bears a date of 1782. The composition of these two early treatments features the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates in his prison cell, surrounded by disciples. Sentenced to death by the Athenian courts for his unorthodox beliefs, he prepares to drink from a cup of hemlock. His gesture heavenward indicates that he has paused to expound upon his theory of the immortality of the human soul.David would return to the theme in 1786 when Charles-Louis Trudaine de Montigny, a wealthy conseiller in the Paris parliament, commissioned from him a painting on the subject. At that point, he made a quickly executed composition

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The Death of Socrates ca. 1782 Jacques Louis David French This sheet is an early exploration of the subject that Jacques Louis David would later treat in his 1787 painting, The Death of Socrates 31.45, which entered the Mets collection in 1931. It is essentially a tracing or re-drawing of a looser sketch in a private collection (Rosenberg-Prat, 2002, I, no.52, pp.71-72) which bears a date of 1782. The composition of these two early treatments features the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates in his prison cell, surrounded by disciples. Sentenced to death by the Athenian courts for his unorthodox beliefs, he prepares to drink from a cup of hemlock. His gesture heavenward indicates that he has paused to expound upon his theory of the immortality of the human soul.David would return to the theme in 1786 when Charles-Louis Trudaine de Montigny, a wealthy conseiller in the Paris parliament, commissioned from him a painting on the subject. At that point, he made a quickly executed composition

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