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The Death of Leonardo da Vinci
Painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
The Death of Leonardo da Vinci or Francis I Receives the Last Breaths of Leonardo da Vinci is an 1818 oil painting by the French artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, showing the Italian artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci dying, with Francis I of France holding his head. It was commissioned by Pierre Louis Jean Casimir de Blacas, the French ambassador in Rome, and is now in the Petit Palais in Paris.[1]
Another version of the painting created c. 1851 is held by the Smith College Museum of Art.[2]