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David painted his murdered friend, the revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat, slumped in the bath where he was stabbed, transforming a grisly crime into a secular pietà. The spare composition and cool light lend it the gravity of a martyr's icon. It is the great image of the French Revolution.
The Death of Marat
- Date1793
- MovementNeoclassicism
- WhereRoyal Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels
- RegionLow Countries · South