Convicts of the brest penal colony, an execution in the penal colony (a chaplain assists the executed person; the execution is public and all the convicts attend, bareheaded; the guillotine is reserved for any convict who kills or hits a security guard or prepares an uprising. There was on average one execution each year). Object Type: drawing. Date: 1844. Collection: Brest’s Museum of Fine Arts. 576 Brest musée beaux-arts Jules Noël Une exécution au bagne
