<em>Death of Sardanapalus</em> (La Mort de Sardanapale) is an oil painting on canvas, dated 1827 by Eugène Delacroix. Its dominant feature is a large divan, with its golden elephants, on which a nude prostrates herself and beseeches the apathetic Sardanapalus for mercy. Sardanapalus (Detail) had ordered his possessions destroyed and sex slaves murdered before immolating himself, once he learned that he was faced with military defeat.