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File:David - The Death of Socrates.jpg

Artist
Title
English: The Death of Socrates
Română: Moartea lui Socrate
Русский: Смерть Сократа
Date 1787
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 130 x 196 cm
Gallery 601
Accession number 31.45
Credit line Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1931
Source/Photographer http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/110000543
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