Allegory of the Declaration of the Rights of Man, 1790 (oil on canvas)

Allegorie relative a la declaration des droits de l'homme; Minerva in the centre is writing the Rights of Man with the advice of Prudence and Justice; to the left Hercules helps France, crowned and seated on a throne, to place a bust of Louis XVI on a pedestal; to the right of the goddess are Sieyes and Lafayette and on the left is the Mayor of Paris, Bailly. holding a key behind a woman who symbolises the city of Paris; Emmnauel Joseph Sieyes (1748-1836); Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834); Jean Sylvain Bailly (1736-93) Mayor of Paris 1789-91; top left of the sketch is the tower of the Bastille in the process of collapsing;