The Death of Socrates

1790

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: Sheet: 18 13/16 in. × 22 in. (47.8 × 55.9 cm) Image: 16 in. × 21 1/16 in. (40.6 × 53.5 cm)
Collection no.: 62.602.597
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Jean François Pierre Peyron. The Death of Socrates. Jean François Pierre Peyron; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Rogers Fund, 1962. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

The Death of Socrates — Jean François Pierre Peyron. 1790.

Medium: Etching. Dimensions: Sheet: 18 13/16 in. × 22 in. (47.8 × 55.9 cm) Image: 16 in. × 21 1/16 in. (40.6 × 53.5 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1962.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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