Jacques Louis David ja Prantsuse Revolutsioon
who was a victorious and noble military general falsely accused of betrayal. (Rosenblum,
Woldemar, 1984, p.25) Same misfortune happened to one general in France:
"The legend was especially popular in the late eighteenth century, not only because of its
dramatic ingredient of grim misfortune, but because it offered a historical counterpart to the
contemporary scandal of a French general, the Count de Lally, who, after mismanaging a
French expedition to India, was wrongly convicted of treason and executed in 1766, but then
officially exonerated in 1781, the year of David's painting. It was the kind of parallel between
contemporary events and distant history that David's art would evoke more and more as the
Revolution approached."(Rosenblum, Woldemar, 1984, p.25)
Although, the painting is not specifically created to represent the French Revolution, its theme
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