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Charlotte Corday, by Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry
Contributed by: Morrison
  • 1. Who painted the portrait 'Charlotte Corday'?
A) Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
B) Eugène Delacroix
C) Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry
D) Jacques-Louis David
  • 2. What year was Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry born?
A) 1815
B) 1828
C) 1840
D) 1793
  • 3. What is Charlotte Corday most famous for?
A) Being a queen of France
B) Leading the Women's March on Versailles
C) Writing the Declaration of the Rights of Woman
D) Assassinating Jean-Paul Marat
  • 4. How does Baudry's portrayal differ from Jacques-Louis David's 'Death of Marat'?
A) Baudry shows the assassination scene
B) Baudry humanizes Corday while David vilifies her
C) Baudry includes more historical figures
D) Baudry depicts Corday as monstrous
  • 5. What is the composition focus of Baudry's painting?
A) The assassination weapon
B) A crowd of revolutionaries
C) The bloody scene
D) Corday's face and upper body
  • 6. What was Charlotte Corday's social background?
A) Educated minor nobility
B) Royal princess
C) Peasant farmer
D) Urban working class
  • 7. Which art prize did Baudry win in 1850?
A) Prix de Rome
B) French Art Medal
C) Nobel Prize for Art
D) Turner Prize
  • 8. Which historical period does the painting depict?
A) Renaissance
B) Napoleonic Wars
C) French Revolution
D) Middle Ages
  • 9. How old was Charlotte Corday when she died?
A) 19
B) 35
C) 30
D) 24
  • 10. What was Baudry's primary medium?
A) Printmaking
B) Sculpture
C) Oil painting
D) Watercolor
  • 11. What was Corday's motivation for killing Marat?
A) Financial gain
B) Personal revenge
C) Royalist conspiracy
D) To stop the Reign of Terror
  • 12. What is the lighting source in the painting?
A) Dramatic side lighting
B) No visible light source
C) Back lighting only
D) Flat overall light
  • 13. What year was Charlotte Corday executed?
A) 1789
B) 1799
C) 1793
D) 1804
  • 14. What weapon did Corday use to kill Marat?
A) A dagger
B) Poison
C) A pistol
D) A kitchen knife
  • 15. Which political faction did Charlotte Corday sympathize with?
A) Royalists
B) Bonapartists
C) Girondins
D) Jacobins
  • 16. Where was Charlotte Corday from?
A) Brittany
B) Normandy
C) Paris
D) Provence
  • 17. In what century did Baudry paint 'Charlotte Corday'?
A) 20th century
B) 19th century
C) 17th century
D) 18th century
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