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Jacques-Louis DAVID: Marat's death. Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels (Belgium), 1793. Marat's Death is an oil painting by Jacques-Louis David in 1793, currently on display at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels. The painting represents the death in 1793 of Jean-Paul Marat, who was called the "friend of the people" at the time he was killed on July 13, 1793 and the crime was considered by the revolutionaries as an attack against the new Constitution. Marat was a figure of revolutionary radicalism represented by the mountaineers, who came to eliminate the Girondins. Marat was stabbed, while writing in his bathtub, by Charlotte Corday, supported by the more moderate Girondin faction, which traveled from Normandy, Paris obsessed with the idea of killing the man she perceived as a "beast" and thus "saving France". She approached him using the excuse of talking about traitors to the cause of the revolution. Corday killed him w...
