The Death of Caesar

Jean-Leon Gerome

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The Death of Caesar
Artist Jean-Léon Gérôme
Year 1867
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 85.5 cm × 145.5 cm (33.7 in × 57.3 in)
Location Walters Art Museum, Baltimore


The Death of Caesar (French: La Mort de César) is an 1867 painting by the French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme. It depicts the moment after the assassination of Julius Caesar, when the jubilant conspirators are walking away from Caesar's dead body at the Theatre of Pompey, on the Ides of March (March 15), 44 BC. The painting is kept at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland.