The Death of Socrates

ca. 1749

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over red chalk heightened with white gouache.
Dimensions: 8 15/16 x 13 3/8 in. (22.7 x 34 cm)
Collection no.: 2001.285
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Michel-François Dandré-Bardon. The Death of Socrates. Michel-François Dandré-Bardon; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Purchase, Karen B. Cohen Fund, Giuseppe Gazzoni-Frascara Gift, and The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2001. 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 — Michel-François Dandré-Bardon. ca. 1749.

Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over red chalk heightened with white gouache.. Dimensions: 8 15/16 x 13 3/8 in. (22.7 x 34 cm).

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

Credit line: Purchase, Karen B. Cohen Fund, Giuseppe Gazzoni-Frascara Gift, and The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2001.

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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