| The Triumph of Marat | |
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| Artist | Louis-Léopold Boilly |
| Year | 1794 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, history painting |
| Dimensions | 80 cm × 120 cm (31 in × 47 in) |
| Location | Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Lille |
The Triumph of Marat (French: Le Triomphe de Marat) is a 1794 history painting by the French artist Louis-Léopold Boilly. It depicts the moment on 24 April 1793 when Jean-Paul Marat, a leader of the French Revolution, was acquitted by a Revolutionary Tribunal. He had been accused by the National Convention insurrection against the Girondinss. Boilly shows Marat being carried by a cheering crowd of supporters through the Salle des Pas Perdus of the Palais de la Cité. In July the same year Marat was assassinated by the Girondin sympathiser Charlotte Corday, leading to the Reign of Terror.
Having moved to Paris a few years before the revolution, Boilly was able to exhibit paintings at the Paris Salon at the Louvre for the first time at the Salon of 1791. He exhibited further works at the Salon of 1793 but in 1794 at the height of the Terror he was denounced for producing obscene, anti-republican art. He responded by producing a patriotic painting celebrating Marat. It also marked a shift in his work towards the crowd scenes he would become celebrated for. Today the painting is in the collection of the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille having been acquired in 1865.
References
- Whitlum-Cooper p.17
- Duby & Perrot p.251
- Masterworks from the Musée Des Beaux-arts, Lille. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992. p.143
- Whitlum-Cooper p.16-17
- Whitlum-Cooper p.17-18
- Whitlum-Cooper p.18
- https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/joconde/000PE019050
Bibliography
- Duby, Georges & Perrot, Michelle. A History of Women in the West: Renaissance and Enlightenment Paradoxes. Harvard University Press, 1992.
- Whitlum-Cooper, Francesca. Boilly: Scenes of Parisian Life. National Gallery Company, 2019.
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