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Title
The
Death
of
Bara
,
detail
,
head
.
Creator
David, Jacques-Louis (French painter and draftsman, 1748-1825)
Date
1794
Cultural Context
French
European
Western European
Style/Period
Neoclassical
Theme
Paintings (visual works)
Oil paintings (visual works)
History paintings
History paintings
Scenes (depictions)
Revolutions
French Revolution, France, 1789-1799
Deaths
Figures (representations)
Figurative art
Children (people by age group)
Boys
Youth
Adolescents
Revolutionaries
Nudes (representations)
Nudity
Ideal, the
Front views
Profiles (figures)
Three-quarter views
Oblique views
Cockades
Cables (object genres )
Detail views
Subject
Paintings
Oil paintings
Storytelling
Death
Revolutions
Children
Boys
Teenagers
Youth
Revolutionaries
Spies
Nudes
Details
Description
“The
following
year
, the
heroes
of the
day
were
children
.
David
was
asked
to
paint
Joseph
Bara
, the
drummer
who
chose
to
die
rather
than
shout
‘Vive
le
roi!’
, and the
young
Provençal
Agricol
Viala
. Of these
two
projects
,
one
unfinished
canvas
survives
.
It
is
know
as The
Death
of
Bara
,
though
there are
some
indications
that the
subject
is
actually
Viala
,
who
was
shot
dead
while
cutting
a
cable
used
by the
royalist
troops
to
cross
the
river
Durance
. The
royalists
can
just
be
made
out
on the
left
,
while
the
cable
snakes
across
the
ground
beside
his
body
. He
still
holds
the
tricolour
[tricolor]
cockade
and the
message
entrusting
him with the
mission
. He
is
shown
naked
;
child
spies
stripped
to
slip
behind
the
enemy
lines.”
(p.112)
People Pictured
Bara, Joseph, 1779-1793
Location Depicted
France
Material
Oil on canvas
Oil paint (pigmented coating)
Paint
Canvas
Measurements
119 x 156 cm (46 7/8 x 61 3/8 in)
Technique
Painting (image-making)
Oil painting (technique)
Work Type
Paintings
Oil paintings
History paintings
Details
Repository
Musee Calvet (Avignon, France)
Source
Monneret, Sophie. David and Neo-Classicism. Paris: Terrail, 1999. (p.[113])
Rights
Photo/illustration credit/reproduced in Monneret courtesy: Musee Calvet, Avignon.
Digital Publisher
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format
image/jpeg
Digital File Name
VRC
523-07.jpg
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