Artist: Paul Delaroche (Hippolyte Delaroche)
Style: Academicism
Topic: Executions People Women
Date: 1833
Museum: National Gallery (London, United Kingdom)
Technique: Oil
The Execution of Lady Jane Grey is an oil painting by Paul Delaroche completed in 1833. It is currently housed in the National Gallery in London. The painting portrays, erroneously in some regards, the moments preceding the death of Lady Jane Grey, who, on July 10, 1553 was proclaimed Queen of England, only to be deposed 9 days later and executed in 1554. Jane is sometimes known as the "Nine Days' Queen" due to the brevity of her reign. The painting was made after the July Revolution of 1830 which deposed Charles X of France, the last of the French Bourbon monarchs. Charles X's brother was Louis XVI of France whose throne was "usurped" and who was executed during the French Revolution. It is also redolent of the execution of Marie-Antoinette. Unsurprisingly, the emotive painting caused something of a sensation. The painting was highly popular in the Paris salon, where it was first showcased in 1834. It was originally bought by Anatole Demidov, 1st Prince of San Donato as part of the Demidov collection.[citation needed] It later came into the possession of Lord Cheylesmore, who bequeathed it to the Tate Gallery in 1902. The painting was thought to have been destroyed in the disastrous Tate Gallery flood of 1928 during the 1928 Thames flood, and was only rediscovered in 1973 by Tate Gallery curator Christopher Johnstone. He was writing a book on the British painter John Martin and going through the damaged canvases remaining from the flood in search of a missing painting by the artist. He found the Martin (albeit in very poor condition) rolled inside the Delaroche painting which was in perfect condition and transferred to the National Gallery where it should have gone when the national art collections were rationalized following the establishment of the Tate Gallery.
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