L’arrestation de Charlotte Corday/ Arrest of Charlotte Corday in 1793, c. 1830
Oil on canvas
Height: 130 cm (51.1 in) ; Width: 163 cm (64.1 in)
Musée Lambinet
Charlotte Corday, born Marie-Anne-Charlotte Corday d’Armont was born in Normandy on July 27, 1768 and was executed on July 17, 1793 in Paris. She is largely remembered as the assassin of French Revolutionary leader, Jean-Paul Marat while he rested in his bath at home. She was born into a poor but noble family in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alps region in the south east of France, but she was being educated in Caens which is in Normandy in the North. She began going to political meetings there and became inspired by the ideas of the Revolution, and in particular the Girondin faction…
Zaidan Gallery 