page_title: Louis-Michel le Peletier, marquis de Saint-Fargeau
section_title: Painting by David
hierarchical_section_title: Louis-Michel le Peletier, marquis de Saint-Fargeau / Painting by David
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Les derniers moments de Michel Lepeletier Gravure d'Anatole Desvoge d'aprés Jacques Louis David
context_page_description: Louis-Michel le Peletier, Marquis of Saint-Fargeau was a French politician and martyr of the French revolution.
context_section_description: The painter Jacques-Louis David represented his death in a famous painting, Les Derniers moments de Michel Lepeletier or Lepelletier de Saint-Fargeau sur son lit de mort. David described his painting of Le Peletier's face as "Serene, that is because when one dies for one's country, one has nothing with which to reproach oneself." This painting, known only through a drawing made by a pupil of David, is considered by scholars the first official painting of the French Revolution, a rehearsal for David's later achievement The Death of Marat.
caption: Les derniers moments de Michel Lepeletier, an engraving by Anatole Desvoge after the painting by Jacques-Louis David
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