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 LocationMusee Calvet, Avignon, France 1 Medium
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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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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
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