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The Death of Young Bara

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The Death of Young Bara, also called The Death of Bara, is an incomplete 1794 oil painting by the French Neoclassical artist Jacques-Louis David, now in the Musee Calvet in Avignon. It depicts the final moments of Joseph Bara, a boy drummer in the army of the French First Republic killed by Vendeen royalists, and belonged to a series of David paintings dramatizing revolutionary heroes and martyrs alongside The Death of Marat and The Last Moments of Michel Lepeletier. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Year Created
1794 1
Medium
Oil on canvas 1
Location
Musee Calvet, Avignon, France 1
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Painting 1
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1. The Death of Young Bara (Wikipedia)
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    is an incomplete 1794 oil painting
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    1794 oil painting on canvas by the French
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    now in the [[musée Calvet]] in [[Avignon]]
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    The Death of Young Bara, also called The Death of Bara, is an incomplete 1794 oil painting by the French Neoclassical artist Jacques-Louis David, now in the Musee Calvet in Avignon.
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