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This painting is an interesting addition to our web # 28880. The depicted scene is taking place at prison Conciergerie - the last domicile of Jean Paul Marat's assassin, Charlotte Corday (click here for WIKIPEDIA article ). Artist Johann Jakob Hauer started portraying Charlotte during the court hearing on July 17th 1793. Upon her permission, he completed an oil portrait during her last hours in the death chamber of Conciergerie (see our image). Afterwards, she asked the painter to produce a small copy of this portrait that was to be handed over to her family.

Johann Jakob (also Jean-Jacques) Hauer was a German-born artist working in the period of the French Revolution. He was born in 1751 in Gau-Algesheim / Rheinhessen and died in 1829 in Blois / Loir-et-Cher in France. He began his studies under Mannheim court artist Johann Philipp Hofmeister and (from May 1769) continued them at the Academy Royale in Paris, where he became a pupil of Jacques-Louis David.
In summer of 1789 Hauer served as a commander of the 2nd Battalion of Garde Nationale. In 1792 he was promoted to captain, receiving under his command Battalion of "Section des Cordeliers". The "Club des Cordelliers", named so after the Convent des Cordelliers in the rue de l'Ecole-de-Medicine on the left bank of Seine, counted among its members Georges Danton and Jean-Paul Marat and bore the reputation of the most radical establishment of this kind among the revolutionaries. Later Haur represented the "Section Théatre-Français" as a clerk. On July 13th 1793, Marat, who lived across from the Club, in the same Section, was killed by young Norman noblewoman Charlotte Corday. The assassin was taken to the neighboring prison "Conciergerie" - the "ante-chamber" preceding the guillotine. Haur - commandant in charge of public order and security - was allowed visits to prominent detainees and (as in the case of Charlotte Corday) also to paint their portraits…

The author of presented here painting, French artist Jean-Baptiste (called James) Bertrand, was born in 1823 in Lyon and died in 1887 in Orsay. He studied in 1839-1841 at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Lyon; in 1842-43 was a pupil of Claude Bonnefond; in 1844 came to Paris, where he soon became a pupil of Alphonse Périn. After living in Rome between 1857-1862 Bertrand returned to Paris. From 1843 and for the next 12 years, under Périn's supervision, he worked on frescoes of the church Notre-Dame de Lorette in Paris. From 1857 Bertrand's interests took a strong turn towards paintings with romantic, allegorical, religious, and genre subjects. From 1867 he also painted scenes with historical and literary heroines (hence, we are certain that the painting presented here was made in this, last period of the artist's life).
Works of Jean-Baptiste Bertrand can be viewed in museums of Antwerp, Bordeaux, Glasgow, Lyon, Paris, Versailles, etc.

Our images show several works of this artist that were offered at the international art auction market in the last years (among others, a study of our painting - see our image).

Provenance: private collection, Lyon

Condition: good; lined

Creation Year: 1860/70s

Measurements: UNFRAMED: 73.5 cm x 96.0 cm / 28.9" x 37.8" inches FRAMED: 89.0 cm x 111.3 cm / 35.0" x 43.8" inches

Object Type: Framed oil painting

Style: Historical paintings

Technique: oil on canvas

Inscription: signed: JAMES.BERTRAND-

Creator: Jean-Baptiste Bertrand

Creator Dates: 1823 Lyon-1887 Orsay

Nationality: French


Themes:

FRENCH
FRENCH REVOLUTION
ARTIST STUDIO
PRISON
PRISONER
GENRE


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