Marcus Tullius Cicéron tiré de sa litière et assassiné par des soldats sous le commandement de Marc Antoine, 43 av. J.-C.

This nineteenth-century illustration depicts the assassination of Marcus Tullius Cicero in 43 BCE, at the moment he is dragged from his litter by soldiers acting under the authority of Mark Antony. The episode belongs to the troubled period of the Roman civil wars that followed the assassination of Julius Caesar. A major orator, philosopher, and statesman of the late Roman Republic, Cicero had fiercely opposed Mark Antony in his Philippics, which led to his proscription and eventual execution. Although it is a later and dramatic reconstruction, the image illustrates the extreme political violence that accompanied the collapse of the Roman Republic and the elimination of its leading senatorial figures.