Die Bergung der Leiche Jean-Paul Marats
nach 1875
Medium
Öl auf Leinwand
Dimensions
58 × 71,5 cm
Classification
Gemälde
Department
Belvedere Collection
Museum
Belvedere
Credit
Belvedere, Vienna
Accession Number
3285
Art Historical Context
In the hushed galleries of the Belvedere Collection in Vienna, Hans Canon's *Die Bergung der Leiche Jean-Paul Marats (The Recovery of the Body of Jean-Paul Mar), painted after 1875, a pivotal moment from the French Revolution This oil on canvas, measuring 58 × .5 cm, portrays the grim retrieval of the radical journalist and Jacobin leader Jean-Paul Marat's corpse following his assassination in 179. Marat, stabbed to death in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday, became a martyr symbol for revolutionaries, inspiring iconic works like Jacques-Louis David's famous deathbed scene. Canon, a prominent A...