The revolutionary journalist Jean-Paul Marat lies dead in the medicinal bath where he worked, stabbed by Charlotte Corday on 13 July 1793. David, his friend and fellow Montagnard, painted him within months as a secular martyr, the hanging arm recalling Christ in a Pietà, against a bare dark wall. His pupils made copies for the revolutionary cult of Marat.
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Marat still holds a letter from Corday, its wording invented by David. The wooden block beside the tub is inscribed "À MARAT, DAVID".
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