The Storming of the Bastille (painting)

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.Weber p.22-23Fairclough p.89 It portrays the assault on the Bastille, long a prison of the Ancien Regime, from the view of the insurgents.Pressly p.38 Today the painting is in the collection of the Museum of the French Revolution in Vizille.

References

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.