A Bit of the French Revolution in Painting

Focus on a key period in the most important event in French history

L’appel des dernières victimes de la terreur, Charles-Louis Muller, 1850 — musée de la Révolution Française

This painting was made by the French painter Charles-Louis Muller many years after the French Revolution (1789–1799) and caused a sensation at the Salon of 1850. It depicts the last victims sentenced to the guillotine under the Terror, before the fall of Robespierre.