2-702-548 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Jean Paul Marat', (1933). Portrait of French political theorist and journalist Jean-Paul Marat (1743-1793), one of the most radical voices of the French Revolution. He was assassinated by Charlotte Corday while taking a medicinal bath for a debilitating skin condition. From "Gestalten Der Weltgeschichte", a book of cigarette-card portrait miniatures of figures in world history from the last four hundred years. [Germany, 1933]