French Revolution, End Of The 18th Century, Rare Polychrome Bronze Bas-relief Representing Jean-paul Marat

French Revolution, End of the 18th century, Rare polychrome bronze bas-relief representing Jean-Paul Marat

Revolutionary period, after 1793


Rare polychrome bronze representation of the famous revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat. Represented in profile and wearing the Phrygian cap, the latter adorned with the cockade, the hairstyle in a ponytail tied with a ribbon.
Inscription on the right " UNABLE TO CORRUPT HIM THEY MURDERED HIM " above the Masonic symbol of the level pierced with a knife.
At the bottom of the bas-relief, the inscription "MARAT THE FRIEND OF THE PEOPLE "
On the reverse, old exhibition label

Good general condition, signs of use
22.2 cm
Former André BERNHEIM collection (1877-1961)

Bas-relief presented in 1966 during the exhibition 'Marat, medicine and the Revolution' at the Goya Museum in Castres


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