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MARTIN DROLLING OBERHERGHEIM, 1752 - 1817, PARIS
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MARTIN DROLLING OBERHERGHEIM, 1752 - 1817, PARIS
Presumed portrait of Maximilian
by Robespierre (1758 - 1794)
Oil on canvas
47 x 33, 3 cm
Carried by the words of a certain Monsieur Schunk, a legend of the revolutionary period tells that in 1793, after the tombs of the kings of France had been desecrated in Saint-Denis and their hearts recovered in Saint-Louis-des-Jésuites, they were sold to make pigments. Martin Drölling is said to have bought several of them and then crushed them and used them in his painting, the mummified hearts having the reputation of providing an incomparable reddish-brown glaze, a colour close to that of the shirt worn by Robespierre in our painting. With this story in mind, the viewer would then have assumed, not without fear, that the portrait of the man who was the figure of the Revolutionary Terror, here carried the blood of those he had wanted to exterminate around his neck. A cathartic portrait that is not a cathartic portrait, there is no morbid comedy here, the legend is in fact not based on any scientific foundation.
Presumed portrait of Maximilian
by Robespierre (1758 - 1794)
Oil on canvas
47 x 33, 3 cm
Carried by the words of a certain Monsieur Schunk, a legend of the revolutionary period tells that in 1793, after the tombs of the kings of France had been desecrated in Saint-Denis and their hearts recovered in Saint-Louis-des-Jésuites, they were sold to make pigments. Martin Drölling is said to have bought several of them and then crushed them and used them in his painting, the mummified hearts having the reputation of providing an incomparable reddish-brown glaze, a colour close to that of the shirt worn by Robespierre in our painting. With this story in mind, the viewer would then have assumed, not without fear, that the portrait of the man who was the figure of the Revolutionary Terror, here carried the blood of those he had wanted to exterminate around his neck. A cathartic portrait that is not a cathartic portrait, there is no morbid comedy here, the legend is in fact not based on any scientific foundation.