The Death of Marat
Jacques-Louis David · 1793
The story
The Death of Marat is a 1793 painting by Jacques-Louis David depicting the artist's friend and murdered French revolutionary leader, Jean-Paul Marat. One of the most famous images from the era of the French Revolution, it was painted when David was the leading French Neoclassical painter, a Montagnard, and a member of the revolutionary Committee of General Security. Created in the months after Marat's death, the painting shows Marat lying dead in his bath after his assassination by Charlotte Corday on 13 July 1793.
- Artist
- Jacques-Louis David
- Date
- 1793
- Collection
- Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium
- Movement
- Neoclassical painting
- Medium
- oil paint, canvas
- Size
- 165 × 128 cm
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