The death of Socrates, ca. 1640 – 1650

Title

The death of Socrates

Draughtsman

• Nicolas Poussin circle

Verso

Kniender Johannesknabe mit Lamm und dem auf dem Kreuz schlafenden Christuskind

Period Produced

• 17th century

School

• Baroque
• French classicism

Object Type

• drawing

Material

• ink?
• Indian ink?
• chalk
• paper

Technique

• pen drawing
• washing
• chalk drawing

Geographic Reference

• French

Production Reason

• figure study
• movement study
• composition study

Captions Added Later

Bezeichnet oben rechts (mit der Feder): 4; verso bezeichnet (mit Bleistift): N. Poussin
Verso Stempel des Städelschen Kunstinstituts, Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 2356), mit zugehöriger Inventarnummer

Watermark

• Nicht vorhanden

Work Catalogues

• Rosenberg/Prat 1994.II.886.R.432

Institution

• Städel Museum

Departement

• Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

• Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

Public Domain

Acquisition

Acquired in 1919

Genre

• historical narration
• portrayal of a historical event

Persons Shown

• Socrates

Primary

• 98B(SOCRATES)68 death of Socrates: in prison, surrounded by his grieving disciples, he calmly drinks the cup of poison after having made a libation to the gods

Secondary

• 42E131 mourning the dead
• 31E3 the corpse
• 31A2511 arm raised upward
• 41AA1 civic architecture; edifices; dwellings - AA - civic architecture: inside

Alternative Attribution

• Antoine Bouzonnet Stella draughtsman; by literature
• Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy draughtsman; by note on mount
• Charles Errard the Younger ? draughtsman; by literature
• Jacques Blanchard ? draughtsman; by literature
• Meister von Stockholm ? draughtsman; by literature

Historic Attribution

• Nicolas Poussin draughtsman