An early 19th Century French watercolour on ivory portrait painting study depicting Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont (27 July 1768 – 17 July 1793), known as Charlotte Corday. Set to a period French gilt brass ormolu frame. Early auction / provenance label to reverse. Measures approx; 23cm x 16cm. Charlotte Corday (French: [kɔʁdɛ]), was a figure of the French Revolution. In 1793, she was executed by guillotine for the assassination of Jacobin leader Jean-Paul Marat, who was in part responsible for the more radical course the Revolution had taken through his role as a politician and journalist. Marat had played a substantial role in the political purge of the Girondins, with whom Corday sympathized. His murder was depicted in the painting The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David, which shows Marat's dead body after Corday had stabbed him in his medicinal bath. The original painted at her request by Jean-Jacques Hauer, a few hours before her execution.