The Death of Seneca

A pen, ink and brown wash drawing with white highlights shows a pale, bearded man reclining on a couch in a colonnaded hall. Mourning attendants lean over him, one kneeling in the foreground, while a statue stands in a niche behind them.

Look closer: A small smoke or steam wisp rises from a vessel at the right edge, near the attendants.

Artist

Jean Guillaume Moitte

Date

ca. 1770–90

Medium

Pen and black ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache on blue paper

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

3805 × 2842 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Gift in memory of Sir Anthony Lousada from his children, and The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2001