Focus on The Death of Marat and explain the In popular culture.
In 1897, the French director Georges Hatot made a movie entitled La Mort de Marat. This early silent film made for the Lumière Company is a brief single-shot scene of the assassination of the revolutionary.
In Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita (1955), the main protagonist Humbert Humbert, explains his feelings "like Marat but with no white-necked maiden to stab me"
The composition influenced one of the scenes in Stanley Kubrick's 1975 adaptation of Barry Lyndon.
The cover art of the 1980 album East by Australian pub rock band Cold Chisel, was inspired by the painting.
Andrzej Wajda's 1983 film Danton includes several scenes in David's atelier, including one showing the painting of Marat's portrait.
Derek Jarman's 1986 film Caravaggio imitates the painting in a scene where the chronicler, head bound in a towel (but writing here with a typewriter), slouches back in his tub, one arm extended outside the tub.
Vik Muniz recreated the Death of Marat with waste from a massive landfill near Rio de Janeiro in his 2010 documentary Waste Land. The picture is prominently featured on the DVD cover.
Steve Goodman re-created the painting (with himself in place of Marat) for the cover of his 1977 album Say It in Private.
The painting is recreated in The Red Violin (1998), in the scene when Jason Flemyng, playing violinist Frederick Pope, leans back in a bathtub with a letter from his lover in his hand.
In the 2002 movie, About Schmidt, Jack Nicholson's character Warren falls asleep in the bath whilst composing a letter, recreating David's painting.
The painting was used as the album art for American band Have a Nice Life's 2008 album Deathconsciousness.
The painting was used as the album art for American band The New Regime’s 2008 album  Coup.
In the 23 October 2008, episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (Season 9, Episode 3 - "Art Imitates Life") a serial killer poses his victims peculiarly, one such victim's posture being an homage to David's painting.
In 2013, it was gender-swapped with Lady Gaga in Marat's spot for ARTPOP. MTV
In the 2014 video game Assassin's Creed Unity, Arno Dorian investigates the death of Jean-Paul Marat, bringing Charlotte Corday to justice. The body of Jean-Paul is as given in the painting by Jacques-Louis David.
The painting was mentioned as a favorite of the narrator in the novel My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
The painting is referenced by US alternative rock band R.E.M. in the lyrics of their song "We Walk" and in the video to their song "Drive".
The cover art to singer-songwriter Andrew Bird's 2019 album My Finest Work Yet features a recreation of the painting with Bird in place of Marat.
My Finest Work Yet Deathconsciousness Derek Jarman Jason Flemyng Jacques-Louis David We Walk Jean-Paul Marat Georges Hatot Have a Nice Life East Steve Goodman Drive Stanley Kubrick My Year of Rest and Relaxation The New Regime Lolita Ottessa Moshfegh The Red Violin Cold Chisel Waste Land Vladimir Nabokov Caravaggio Lumière Company Andrew Bird Vik Muniz Barry Lyndon Coup Assassin's Creed Unity Charlotte Corday R.E.M. Danton Andrzej Wajda