The Death of Cleopatra (Spanish: La muerte de Cleopatra), [1] also known simply as Cleopatra, [2] is an 1881 oil painting on canvas by the Filipino painter Juan Luna, currently on display at the Museo del Prado in Madrid, Spain.

Cleopatra drew the attention of the Spanish media: La Ilustracion Española y Americana acknowledged it as a "cuadro del artista filipino" (painting of a Filipino artist) and published an engraving of it.

Octavian had Cleopatra's son Caesarion (also known as Ptolemy XV), rival heir of Julius Caesar, killed in Egypt but spared her children with Antony and brought them to Rome. Cleopatra's death marked the end of the Hellenistic period and Ptolemaic rule of Egypt, as well as the beginning of Roman Egypt, which became a province of the Roman Empire.

This Cleopatra witnessed moments after her death was depicted in Juan Luna’s 1881 “The Death of Cleopatra” (La Muerte de Cleopatra), or simply “Cleopatra,” a work that took inspiration from a scene in Plutarch’s Parallel Lives. Lit as if a door was just opened, its mise-en-scène was filled with classical Egyptian elements ...

The Death of Cleopatra (Spanish: La muerte de Cleopatra), [1] also known simply as Cleopatra, [2] is an 1881 oil painting on canvas by the Filipino painter Juan Luna, currently on display at the Museo del Prado in Madrid, Spain.