| La Prise de la Bastille: 14 juillet 1789 | |
| Other Language 1: | English |
| Other Title 1: | The Taking of the Bastille: 14 July 1789 |
| Artist: | Claude Cholat |
| Year: | 1789 |
| Type: | Gouache |
| Owner: | Carnavalet Museum |
Siege of the Bastille is a gouache painting by Claude Cholat, now in the Carnavalet Museum in Paris, France.
Claude Cholat was a wine merchant living in Paris on the rue Noyer at the start of the French Revolution in 1789.[1] On the morning of 14 July a large Revolutionary crowd gathered outside the royal prison called the Bastille and in the afternoon fighting broke out between the crowd and the royal garrison.[2] Cholat fought on the side of the Revolutionaries, manning one of their cannon during the battle. Afterwards, Cholat produced a famous amateur gouache painting showing the events of the day; produced in primitive, naive style, it combines all the events of the day into a single graphical representation.[3]