The Death of Seneca

Provenance

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Artist: Jean Guillaume Moitte (French, Paris 1746–1810 Paris)
Date: ca. 1770–90
Medium: Pen and black ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache on blue paper
Dimensions: 8 3/4 x 11 13/16 in. (22.2 x 30 cm.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Purchase, Gift in memory of Sir Anthony Lousada from his children, and The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2001
Accession no.: 2001.453

Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.