The Death of Leonardo da Vinci
Medium
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 18 7/16 × 20 7/8 in. (46.8 × 53.1 cm) Image: 15 1/2 × 19 1/2 in. (39.4 × 49.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Leo Steinberg, 1998
Accession Number
1998.466.2
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
Art Historical Context
This etching and engraving, created around 1825, depicts the death of Leonardo da Vinci in 1519 while under the patronage of King Francis I of France. The print brings together the precise hand of engraver Joseph Théodore Richomme with the neoclassical vision of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, whose clean lines and balanced compositions lent themselves beautifully to reproductive printmaking. The scene gathers men, women, and children around the artist’s bedside, emphasizing both personal loss and the passing of a Renaissance giant. Etching and engraving techniques allowed such historical subj...
About the Artist
Joseph Théodore Richomme|Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres|Leonardo da Vinci (French|French|Italian) · 1785 |1780 |1452 –1849 |1867 |1519
French, Paris 1785–1849 Paris|French, Montauban 1780–1867 Paris|Italian, Vinci 1452–1519 Amboise