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The Death of Seneca

Jacques-Louis David

The Death of Seneca

Jacques-Louis David
  • Date: 1773
  • Style: Neoclassicism
  • Genre: history painting
  • Media: oil, canvas
  • Location: Petit Palais, Paris, France
  • Dimensions: 122.5 x 155 cm
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The Death of Seneca is a 1773 painting by Jacques-Louis David, now at the Petit Palais in Paris. It shows the suicide of Seneca the Younger. With its Boucher-like assembly of gesticulating figures, it was his third attempt to win the Prix de Rome, but lost to a painting on the same subject by Pierre Peyron. Peyron's had fewer details and a darker colour palette and was closer to the 'antique' - he was not only David's rival, but also initiated the new classicism which partly inspired David to produce his 1774 Erasistratus Discovering the Cause of Antiochus' Disease.

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