Jean-Joseph-François Tassaert

"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.

Works

• After Fulchran-Jean Harriet, Paris, colour engraving, now in the Musée Carnavalet,La Nuit du 9 au 10 thermidor An II Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine, Arrest of Robespierre, showing the gendarme Charles-André Merda firing the shot which broke Robespierre's jaw