The Storming of the Bastille (painting)

The Storming of the Bastille
Artist	Henry Singleton
Year	c.1790
Type	Oil on canvas, history painting
Dimensions	45.1 cm× 60.4 cm(17.8 in× 23.8 in)
Location	Museum of the French Revolution, Vizille

The Storming of the Bastille is a 1790 history painting by the British artist Henry Singleton. It depicts the Storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789. Commemorated as Bastille Day, it is considered a significant moment in the eruption of the French Revolution which later led to the Execution of Louis XVI in 1793. ^{[1] [2]} It portrays the assault on the Bastille, long a prison of the Ancien Regime, from the view of the insurgents. ^[3] Today the painting is in the collection of the Museum of the French Revolution in Vizille.

References

1. Weber p.22-23
2. Fairclough p.89
3. Pressly p.38

Bibliography

• Fairclough, Mary. The Romantic Crowd: Sympathy, Controversy and Print Culture. Cambridge University Press, 2013.
• Pressly, William L. The French Revolution as Blasphemy: Johan Zoffany's Paintings of the Massacre at Paris, August 10, 1792. University of California Press, 2023.
• Weber, Carolyn (ed.) Romanticism and Parenting: Image, Instruction and Ideology. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009.