| The Death of Bara (La Mort de Bara) | |
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| Artist | Jacques Louis-David |
| Year | 1794 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 47 1/4 × 61 13/16 in. (120 × 157 cm) Framed: 57 1/2 × 71 5/8 in. (146 × 182 cm) |
| Location | Place du château, Vizille, Dept. of Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes |
| Accession | SL.6.2016.4.1 |
The Death of Young Bara, Joseph Bara or The Death of Bara is an incomplete 1794 oil painting on canvas by the French Neoclassical artist Jacques-Louis David, now in the musée Calvet in Avignon. Joseph Bara, a young drummer in the army of the French First Republic, was killed by the Vendéens, French Royalists. David portrays the last moments of the boy and forms a narrative around the story that radically dramatized the circumstances of Bara's death, in accordance with Robespierre's pro-revolutionary propaganda.[1] The Death of Bara belonged to a series of David's paintings depicting the revolution's heroes and martyrs along with The Death of Marat and The Last Moments of Michel.