Jacques-Louis David
(French, 1748–1825)
The painting shows the journalist Jean-Paul Marat (1743–93) lying dead in his bath on 13 July 1793 after his murder by Charlotte Corday (1768-93).
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Under the Second Empire (regime of Napoleon III from 1852 to 1870), Marat was seen as a revolutionary monster, and Corday as a heroine of France, represented in the wall map.
.... held at Notre-Dame de Paris
Remember your science teacher introducing Antoine Lavoisier (French, 1743–1794) who proved that only 1/5 of air supports combustion? -- Oxygen theory of combustion.
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| The Tennis Court Oath - Jacques-Louis David in 1791 - pencil, pen and ink, and oil on canvas (358 x 648 cm) - Palace of Versailles (Paris) |
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Jacques-Louis David in 1793
Oil on canvas (165 × 128 cm)
Royal Museums of Fine Arts (Belgium)
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(L) The Death of Marat
(R) David & the death of Marat
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Charlotte Corday
- Paul Jacques Aimé Baudry (French, 1828-1886)
- oil on canvas (90 x 60 cm) 1860
- Musee des Beaux-Arts de Nantes (France)
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- Jacques-Louis David in 1801 - oil on canvas (261 × 221 cm) - Château de Malmaison, Rueil-Malmaison (Paris) |
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- Jacques-Louis David in 1805–07 - oil on canvas (621 × 979 cm) - Louvre (Paris) |
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- Jacques-Louis David in 1812 - oil on canvas (204 × 125 cm) - National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.) |
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Portrait of Madame Récamier
- Jacques-Louis David
- oil on canvas (174 × 224 cm) 1800
- Louvre (Paris)
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Portrait of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and his wife
- Jacques-Louis David
- oil on canvas (260 × 195 cm) 1788
- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
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