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• Auction House:
  Raffan Kelaher & Thomas
• Sale Name:
  Fine & Decorative Arts
• Sale Date:
  21 Jun 2021 ~ 11am (AEST)
• Lot #:
  44
• Lot Description:
  Two 19th Century French Engravings
  depicting "Danton" and "Charlotte Corday", two important people of the French Revolution. 40 x 30cm.
• Notes:
  Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont (27 July 1768 ñ 17 July 1793), known as Charlotte Corday, was a figure of the French Revolution. In 1793, she was executed by guillotine for the assassination of Jacobin leader Jean-Paul Marat, who was in part responsible for the more radical course the Revolution had taken through his role as a politician and journalist. Marat had played a substantial role in the political purge of the Girondins, with whom Corday sympathized. His murder was depicted in the painting The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David, which shows Marat's dead body after Corday had stabbed him in his medicinal bath. In 1847, writer Alphonse de Lamartine gave Corday the posthumous nickname l'ange de l'assassinat (the Angel of Assassination). Georges Jacques Danton (26 October 1759 ñ 5 April 1794) was a leading figure in the early stages of the French Revolution, in particular as the first president of the Committee of Public Safety. Danton's role in the onset of the Revolution has been disputed; many historians describe him as "the chief force in the overthrow of the French monarchy and the establishment of the First French Republic". He was guillotined by the advocates of revolutionary terror after accusations of venality and leniency toward the enemies of the Revolution.
• Estimate:
  A$100 - 200
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Affordable Art

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