The Death of Marat (La Mort de Marat or Marat Assassiné)

Jacques-Louis David · 1793-12-13T00:00:00Z

The Death of Marat  ( French :  La Mort de Marat  or  Marat Assassiné ) is a painting by  Jacques-Louis David  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  Montagnard  and a member of the revolutionary  Committee of General Security . The painting shows the radical journalist lying dead in his bath on 13 July 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".