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French Revolution Paintings

the french revolution

The French Revolution is usually understood in three parts. During the first, the common class began the revolution by assuming political power at the Estates-General of 1789. The second phase witnessed the Reign of Terror and the fracturing of the revolution, which would then conclude in 1799 with the return of Napoleon to France and his seizure of government.

famous french revolution paintings

#1

Marie Antoinette with the Rose  (1783) Élisabeth Louise Vigée le Brun

#2

The Storming of the Bastille (1790) Jean-Baptiste Lallemand

#3

Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (c. 1789) Jean-Jacques-François le Barbier

#4

The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons  (1789) Jacques-Louis David

#5

The Tennis Court Oath (1790 - 1792) Jacques-Louis David

#6

The Death of Marat  (1793) Jacques-Louis David

#7

Une exécution capitale, la place de la Révolution  (c. 1793) Pierre-Antoine Demachy

#8

Portrait of a Revolutionary (1794) Jean-François Sablet

#9

Marie Antoinette being taken to her Execution  (1794) William Hamilton

#10

Napoleon Crossing the Alps (1802) Jacques-Louis David

#11

Demolition of the Chateau Meudon (1806) Hubert Robert

#12

Liberty Leading the People (1830) Eugène Delacroix