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Rare polychrome bronze representation of the famous revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat. Represented in profile and wearing the Phrygian cap, the latter decorated with the cockade, the hairstyle in a ponytail tied with a ribbon.
Inscription on the right " NEOUVANT LE CORROMPRE ILS L'ONT ASSASSINÉ" above the Masonic symbol of a level pierced with a dagger.
At the bottom of the composition, the inscription "MARAT L'AMI DU PEUPLE".
On the reverse, old exhibition label
Good general condition, marks of use
22.2 cm
Former collection André BERNHEIM (1877-1961)
Bas-relief presented in 1966 during the exhibition 'Marat, medicine and the Revolution' at the Goya Museum in Castres
Ref: 8I0YWRK569