Who painted "The Death of Marat"?

Jacques-Louis David painted The Death of Marat in 1793.

The painting depicts Jean-Paul Marat, a radical French revolutionary leader and David’s friend, moments after he was murdered by Charlotte Corday on 13 July 1793. Marat suffered from a painful skin condition and often worked from a medicinal bath; Corday gained access to him there and fatally stabbed him.

David transformed the recent political killing into an image of martyrdom. Marat’s lowered arm, pale body, and soft illumination recall Christian devotional imagery, while the simple wooden box and the letter in his hand give the scene an austere, almost documentary quality. The note, however, is not an exact surviving quotation from Corday; David adapted it for the composition.

The work became one of the most recognizable images of the French Revolution and a defining example of revolutionary Neoclassicism. The original is held by the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels, while a studio replica is displayed at the Louvre. It is sometimes confused with David’s earlier, now-lost painting of Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau.