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Study for the Funeral of Pallas

Antoine Coypel (d. 1722)

ca. 1716–17 · Red and black chalk heightened with white chalk on blue paper

Study for "The Death of the Earl of Chatham"

John Singleton Copley (d. 1815)

1779 · Black chalk and white-chalk heightening on blue laid paper

Study for "The Death of Major Peirson": Group of Dying French Officers

John Singleton Copley (d. 1815)

1782–83 · Black chalk on light blue laid paper

Study for "The Death of Major Peirson": Two Dead Figures

John Singleton Copley (d. 1815)

1782–83 · Black chalk and white-chalk heightening on light blue laid paper

The Death of Socrates

Jacques Louis David (d. 1825)

ca. 1782 · Pen and black ink, with brush and gray wash, over black chalk; lightly squared in black chalk

Crito

Jacques Louis David (d. 1825)

ca. 1786–87 · Black chalk, stumped, heightened with white chalk; squared in black chalk

Study for Astyanax’s Nurse

Pierre Paul Prud'hon (d. 1823)

ca. 1812 · Black and white chalk, with stumping, on blue paper

The Death of Britannicus

Alexandre Denis Abel de Pujol (d. 1861)

ca. 1814 · Pen and black ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache over graphite and red chalk

Study of a Male Nude Study for "The Death of Seneca"

Eugène Delacroix (d. 1863)

1838–40 · Graphite on buff Bristol board

Study for "Poseuses"

Georges Seurat (d. 1891)

1886–87 · Conté crayon on laid paper.

Study of the Horse for the Statue of Major General George Henry Thomas

John Quincy Adams Ward (d. 1910)

1879, cast after 1910 · Bronze

Study for "Death and Victory"

John Singer Sargent (d. 1925)

1921–22 · Watercolor, graphite, and gouache on off-white wove paper