About this artwork
Delaroche specialised in scenes from French and English history. This drawing was commissioned for a wedding album presented to the duc de Montpensier and Marie Louise Fernande of Bourbon. It relates to a painting which Delaroche completed in 1856, now in the Conciergerie, Paris. The subject, from the French Revolution, is the moment when the moderate Girondin députés, imprisoned in the Conciergerie, learn of their death sentence. They were executed in 1793 on the orders of the Revolutionary Tribunal.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Paul DelarocheFrench (1797 - 1856)
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title:The Girondins
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date created:1846
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materials:Pen and black ink, sepia wash and watercolour heightened with white on paper
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object type:
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credit line:Purchased 1997
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accession number:D 5430
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Paul Delaroche
Paul Delaroche
Delaroche trained in the studios of Watelet and Gros and first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1822. He began to specialise in scenes from French and English history (his best known painting in Britain is The Execution of Lady Jane Grey in the National Gallery, London). In 1833 he was made...
