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Jacques Louis David's Drawing "The Death of Socrates"

Mar 16, 2016 3 MINUTES
"What is the path to a masterpiece?" Perrin Stein on Jacques Louis David's "The Death of Socrates."

Featured artwork:
Jacques Louis David (French, 1748–1825). The Death of Socrates, ca. 1786. Pen and black ink over black chalk with touches brown ink; Sheet: 11 in. x 16 3/8 in. (27.9 x 41.6 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Walter and Leonore Annenberg Acquisitions Endowment Fund and J. Tomilson Hill and Mark Fisch Gifts, 2015 (2015.149)
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/679783

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