![Jacques-Louis David - The Death of Marat [1793] by Gandalf's Gallery](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_sqHjP-KGF0eEwU4b2C69uAjtnzIQtjqaYLNImR73KzWUscZPErHUk1W5-Asnzs_UAAGAsgF0V1dT_-QtzW373MuDR4BtTGzf0qr-akW2xgnjeIMLNLalXeqgCc22_tdw=s0-d)
The Death of Marat is a painting of the murdered French revolutionary leader Jean-Paul Marat. It is one of the most famous images of the Revolution. David was the leading French painter, as well as a member of the revolutionary Committee of General Security. The painting shows the radical journalist lying dead in his bath on July 13, 1793 after his murder by Charlotte Corday. Painted in the months after Marat's murder, it has been described by T. J. Clark as the first modernist painting, for "the way it took the stuff of politics as its material, and did not transmute it.”
[Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium - Oil on canvas, 165 x 128 cm]
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