Study of a Male Nude Study for 'The Death of Seneca', 1838?40, Graphite on buff Bristol board, 12 3/16 x 9 3/16 in. (31 x 23. 4 cm), Drawings, Eugene Delacroix (French, Charenton-Saint-Maurice 1798?1863 Paris), This drawing relates to The Death of Seneca, one of Delacroix?s ceiling paintings found in the library of the Chambre des Deputes in the Palais Bourbon, Paris (now the Assemble Nationale). The Roman philosopher-dramatist Seneca was implicated in a conspiracy to kill Nero