Jean-Joseph-François Tassaert
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Arrestat of the robespierristes. At the centre of the image, gendarme Merda fires at Robespierre. (Colour engraving by Jean-Joseph-François Tassaert after the painting by Fulchran-Jean Harriet - Musée Carnavalet).
Jean-Joseph-François Tassaert (1765, Paris - c.1835) was a French painter and engraver. He was the son of Jean-Pierre-Antoine Tassaert, who also taught him, and the father and teacher of Octave Tassaert.
Works[]
- After Fulchran-Jean Harriet, Paris, colour engraving, now in the Musée Carnavalet,La Nuit du 9 au 10 thermidor An II, Arrest of Robespierre, showing the gendarme Charles-André Merda firing the shot which broke Robespierre's jaw
Categories:
- 1765 births
- 1835 deaths
- 18th-century engravers
- 19th-century engravers
- French engravers
- 18th-century French painters
- French male painters
- 19th-century French painters