[1] [2] It is in the collection of the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, having been acquired in 1865.

[3] It depicts the moment on 24 April 1793 when Jean-Paul Marat, a leader of the French Revolution, was acquitted by a Revolutionary Tribunal.

Boilly shows Marat being carried by a cheering crowd of supporters, both men and women, through the Salle des Pas Perdus of the Palais de la Cité.

[4] In July the same year Marat was assassinated by the Girondin sympathiser Charlotte Corday, leading to the Reign of Terror.

[5] He exhibited further works at the Salon of 1793 but in 1794 at the height of the Terror he was denounced for producing obscene, anti-republican art.