This painting by Jacques-Louis David depicts the death of Jean-Paul Marat, a French revolutionary leader, who was assassinated in 1793. The painting shows Marat in his bathtub, where he was stabbed to death, with his head leaning back and his eyes closed. The painting
The Death of Marat is a 1793 painting by Jacques-Louis David depicting the artist's friend and murdered French revolutionary leader, Jean-Paul Marat. One of the most famous images from the era of the French Revolution, it was painted when David was the leading French Neoclassical painter, a Montagnard, and a member of the revolutionary Committee of General Security. Created in the months after Marat's death, the painting shows Marat lying dead in his bath after his assassination by Charlotte Corday on 13 July 1793.