The Death of Socrates by Jacques-Louis David, 1787
Metropolitan Museum of Art · wikidata.org
The story is out of Plato: Socrates convicted of corrupting the young, handed poison, and choosing to keep talking rather than run. It turned up a couple of years before the Revolution, and people at the time apparently read a man refusing to shut up for the state as being about a lot more than Athens.
Erisava: This is a death scene where everyone still looks fantastic.
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He's the only one in the room holding it together, which I assume is the whole sell.