print
- Museum number
- 1898,0527.82
- Title
- Object: Jean Paul Marat, né à Genève, l'Ami et le défenseur du Peuple, membre de la Conv. Nationale des Français libres
- Description
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Portrait of Marat, bust-length, turned to right, wearing wreath of oak leaves and flowers with cockade affixed to it; in oval. 1793
Etching and aquatint, printed in brown
- Production date
- 1793
- Dimensions
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Height: 176 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 147 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The biography mentions Marat's acquittal by the Tribunal Révolutionnaire (24 April 1793), but not his assassination by Charlotte Corday (13 July 1793). The print was made between these dates.
For impression in black see 17898,0527.81.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1898
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1898,0527.82
