Siege of the Bastille (Cholat)

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La Prise de la Bastille: 14 Juillet 1789
English: The Taking of the Bastille: 14 July 1789
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Artist Claude Cholat
Year1789
Type Gouache
Owner Carnavalet Museum

Siege of the Bastille (French : La Prise de la Bastille) is a gouache painting by Claude Cholat depicting the Storming of the Bastille. The painting is now in the Carnavalet Museum in Paris, France.

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Claude Cholat was a wine merchant living in Paris on the Rue Noyer at the start of the French Revolution in 1789. [1] On the morning of 14 July a large Revolutionary crowd gathered outside the royal prison called the Bastille and in the afternoon fighting broke out between the crowd and the royal garrison. [1] Cholat fought on the side of the Revolutionaries, manning one of their cannon during the battle. Afterwards, he produced the famous amateur gouache painting showing the events of the day; produced in primitive, naive style. It combines all the events of the day into a single graphical representation. [1]

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  1. 1 2 3 Schama, Simon (2004). Citizens: a Chronicle of the French Revolution. London: Penguin. pp. 340–341. ISBN   978-0-14-101727-3 . Retrieved 20 November 2012.

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