La bastonnade, Jules Achille Noël, 1844

Convicts of the brest penal colony, the beating (filing down one's irons, stealing, getting drunk, smoking, beating one's fellow prisoners, writing without permission, etc. , were offences punishable by beating; the executioner, a convict himself in chains, hits with a tarred rope). Object Type: drawing. Date: 1844. Collection: Brest’s Museum of Fine Arts. 573 Brest musée beaux-arts Jules Noël La bastonnade