Jean-Joseph-François Tassaert Explained

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, Arrest of Robespierre, showing the gendarme Charles-André Merda firing the shot which broke Robespierre's jaw