The Death of Leonardo da Vinci

The Death of Leonardo da Vinci
Francis I Receives the Last Breaths of Leonardo da Vinci
Year 1818
Dimensions 40 cm (16 in) × 50.5 cm (19.9 in)
Commissioned by Pierre Louis Jean Casimir de Blacas Edit this on Wikidata

The Death of Leonardo da Vinci is an 1818 painting by the French artist Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, showing the painter Leonardo da Vinci dying, with Francis I of France holding his head. It was commissioned by the Pierre Louis Jean Casimir de Blacas, the French ambassador in Rome, and now hangs in the Petit Palais in Paris.

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