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Object Type
Museum number: 1898,0527.248
Description: Allegory showing Marat being denied access to the Elysian Fields by Jean Jacques Rousseau, who points at the personification of Truth sitting above them and holding a scroll reading 'Vitam impendere vero' as well as a magnifying glass sending out thunderbolts; on the left, some demons dragging Marat into a hellish pit; on the right, several figures gathered underneath trees in Elysium; possibly a print study? Pen, ink, grey wash, with white heightening; laid on thick paper, with black ink border
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School/style
Production date: 1795-1800 (circa?)
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Technique
Dimensions: Height: 183 millimetres (drawing size); Width: 235 millimetres
Curator's comments: 'Vitam impendere vero' was the motto of Marat's journal 'L'Ami du Peuple'; it had previously been Rousseau's own motto.
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Subjects: allegory/personification; hell; devil/demon; reading/writing
Associated names: Representation of: Jean Paul Marat; Representation of: Jean Jacques Rousseau
Associated places: Associated with: Hell/Hades
Associated events: Associated Event: French Revolution 1793; Associated Event: Death of Marat 1793 (13 july)
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1898
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1898,0527.248

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