This work was intended to hang in a parliament building designed by Legrand and Molinos.
This work was intended to hang in a parliament building designed by Legrand and Molinos. In the upper left of this work, a man stops his hat from flying away as an umbrella is flipped open behind him. This work shows a dissenter sitting on a chair with his head down and arms crossed, while at bottom center a clergyman dressed in his traditional white Carthusian robe, Christophe-Antoine Gerle, shakes hands with a layman. A strong wind makes long curtains billow in from the windows in the upper left of this work. Its vanishing point is between the eyes of Jean-Sylvain Bailly, who stands on a table with the title document and lifts his right hand as the crowd imitates him. For 10 points, name this never-completed Jacques-Louis David painting in which the Third Estate pledges to write a constitution.
This work was intended to hang in a parliament building designed by Legrand and Molinos.
The Tennis Court Oath [or Le Serment du Jeu de Paume]