Jean-Joseph-François Tassaert (1765, Paris - c.1835) was a French painter and engraver. He was the son of
Jean-Pierre-Antoine Tassaert
Jean-Pierre-Antoine Tassaert or Jean Pierre Antoine Tassaert (1727, Antwerp – 21 January 1788, Berlin) was a sculptor of Flemish extraction, who, after a successful career in France, became a leading portrait sculptor in Berlin. , who also taught him, and the father and teacher of
Octave Tassaert
Nicolas François Octave Tassaert (Paris, 26 July 1800 – Paris, 24 April 1874)[Fulchran-Jean Harriet
Fulchran-Jean Harriet (1776 – 9 September 1805) was a French academic painter.
Life
He was born in Paris. A student of David, he won the Prix de Rome in 1793 with ''Brutus, killed in battle, is brought back to Rome'', and in 1798 with a painti ...]
, Paris, colour engraving, now in the
Musée Carnavalet
The Musée Carnavalet in Paris is dedicated to the history of the city. The museum occupies two neighboring mansions: the Hôtel Carnavalet and the former Hôtel Le Peletier de Saint Fargeau. On the advice of Baron Haussmann, the civil servant wh ...
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''La Nuit du 9 au 10 thermidor An II'' Arrest of Robespierre, showing the gendarme
Charles-André Merda
Général de brigade Charles André Merda, baron Meda (10 January 1770 – 8 September 1812) was a French soldier. A National Guardsman in the Parisian National Guard from September 1789, then a gendarme from 1794, he participated in the arrest of ...
firing the shot which broke Robespierre's jaw
1765 births
1835 deaths
18th-century engravers
19th-century engravers
French engravers
18th-century French painters
French male painters
19th-century French painters
French people of Flemish descent
19th-century French male artists
18th-century French male artists
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