The Death of Seneca
Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David was a French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era.
Max Resolution:2888×2274 PX
Title:The Death of Seneca
Artists:Jacques-Louis David
Date:1773
Style:Neoclassicism
Genre:history painting
Medium:oil,canvas
Location:Petit Palais, Paris, France
Dimensions:122.5×155 cm
Copyright:Public domain
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.