Jean-Joseph-François Tassaert
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Jean-Pierre-Antoine Tassaert
Jean-Pierre-Antoine Tassaert was a minor sculptor of Flemish extraction, who worked in the manner of Falconnet. He went to Paris as a young man to work in the atelier of Michel-Ange Slodtz, a member of a dynasty of designer-sculptors working for the royal account. After Slodtz's death in 1764, he...
, who also taught him, and the father and teacher of Octave Tassaert
Octave Tassaert
Octave Tassaert was a French painter of portraits and genre, religious, historical and allegorical paintings, as well as a lithographer and engraver, though this family was of Flemish origin. He was the grandson of the sculptor Jean-Pierre-Antoine Tassaert.- Life :Octave's first artistic training...
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- After Fulchran-Jean HarrietFulchran-Jean HarrietFulchran-Jean Harriet was a French painter.-Life: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 painting on the theme of "Battle of the Horatii and the Curiatii".He exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1796 to 1802...
, Paris, colour engraving, now in the Musée Carnavalet,La Nuit du 9 au 10 thermidor An II, Arrest of Robespierre, showing the gendarme Charles-André MerdaCharles-André MerdaCharles-André Merda 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 Maximilien de Robespierre on the night of 9/10 thermidor Year II and claimed to have fired the pistol shot which broke...
firing the shot which broke Robespierre's jaw