In The Victors of the Bastille in Front of the Hôtel de Ville, how is the Subject discussed?
On the evening of 14 July 1789 the crowd who had stormed the Bastille, wounded but triumphant, arrived in front of the Hôtel de Ville, bearing trophies seized from the fortress. The central figure in the painting, Jacob Job Élie, is brandishing in his right hand a sword and in his left hand the key to the fortress and a letter signed by de Launay, its governor, who had just been lynched.
July 1789 stormed the Bastille de Launay Jacob Job Élie Hôtel de Ville