On July 16, 1793, The Trial Of Charlotte Corday For The Assassination Of Paul Marat (drawing)

This large study appears to have been created on the spot, drawn in ink, watercolor, and gouache during the trial of Charlotte Corday on July 16, 1793, by a vibrant hand that recounts: On July 13, 1793, 24-year-old Charlotte Corday assassinated Marat in his bath. Explaining at her trial that she had wanted to "save her country," she was guillotined four days later, becoming a famous figure of the revolutionary period. Charlotte Corday: yesterday unknown, this name was on everyone's lips on July 16, 1793. It was on this day that the young woman, whose real name was Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Amont, was to be tried by the Revolutionary Tribunal for having, three days earlier, assassinated in Paris the Montagnard deputy Jean-Paul Marat, director of the republican newspaper L'Ami du peuple (The Friend of the People). * It is in its current condition (see photo; I am leaving the restoration to a professional and it bears the label of a frame dealer in Paris)** The artwork is glued at the edges to cardboard, and the back of the artwork appears to depict a caricature...*** This is a beautiful historical document; I will send you the dimensions tomorrow. Origin: Northern France