"Arrest of the Robespierristes". At the centre of the image, Gendarme Merda fires at Robespierre (colour engraving by Jean-Joseph-François Tassaert after the painting by
Fulchran-Jean Harriet -
Musée Carnavalet)
Jean-Joseph-François Tassaert (1765, Paris - c.1835) was a French painter and engraver. He was the son of
Jean-Pierre-Antoine Tassaert, who also taught him, and the father and teacher of
Octave Tassaert.