Portrait of Bernard-Charles Bastide and Joseph Jausion, Guillaume-Joseph Roques, 1818

Portrait of bernard-charles bastide and joseph jausion. Inscribed at the top left: "lud. David" and at the bottom right: "lu. . . " on the reverse on the stretcher: "13 thermidor year ii david before the convention. . . " on the letter held by jausion: "list of witnesses. /teron /. . Azals. / brest. " (theron and brès are mentioned at the trial as prosecution witnesses, the first will retract before dying) the two defendants are the protagonists of a famous news item, the fualdès affair in rodez (1817). Convicted on questionable testimony and although claiming their innocence, they were executed in june 1818 for the murder of joseph-bernardin fualdès, prosecutor and magistrate under the revolution and the empire. On roques' work on the fualdès affair, see a great judicial mystery: the fualdès affair based on unpublished documents, https://archive. Org/details/ungrandmystrej00comb. Object Type: painting. Date: 1818. Dimensions: 90 x 88 cm.. Medium: oil on canvas. Bernard-Charles Bastide and Joseph Jausion by Joseph Roques 2