The Death of Sophonisba is am oil on canvas painting of by Italian painter Giambattista Pittoni, from 1716-1720.

[1][2] It was created originally in Venice - a sketch or smaller copy was bought by the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in 1723.

[1] It was bought for the Hermitage Museum in 1773 by the court cellist G. Dal Olio, then placed in the Tauride Palace.

[1] It was finally transferred to its present home at the Pushkin Museum, in Moscow, in 1930.

[1] Its pair a Semiramis by the same artist, was in the Nikaelov collection in Paris before being bought by the Pushkin Museum in 1853.