print
- Museum number
- 1898,0527.85
- Title
- Object: Jean Paul Marat, l'Ami du Peuple, second Martir de la Liberté
- Description
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Portrait of Marat, bust-length, turned to right, head wrapped in cloth, wearing wreath; in oval, against background of horizontal lines, with tablet below. 1793/95
Etching and stipple
- Production date
- 1793-1795
- Dimensions
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Height: 217 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 143 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- According to the catalogue of the De Vinck collection, possibly engraved by Vérité.
For comment on the series of portraits published by Vérité see 1868,0822.7272
For a different state, without the tablet or lines, see 1898,0527.86.
After a portrait of Marat which was frequently reproduced (although the wreath and stars are additions to the original design); the original design is attributed to Desrais in the IFF (Bonneville, cat. No.93; also see De Vinck cat. No. 5266) although other plates name Bonneville as the designer (see 1901,1022.579 and 1898,0527.48). Chevremont refers to the design as by Bonneville.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1898
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1898,0527.85
