Past Exhibition

Beheading of Louis XVI, King of France

Silver medal inscribed DER DOOD VON LUDWIG XVI KONIG VON FRANKREICH [The death of Louis XVI, King of France]
Lead medal depicting the headless corpse of Louis XVI, blood from his neck gushing into a bucket, lying under a guillotine; one man holds up the king’s head; in the background are visible a clergyman reading from the Bible and a man leading a tumbril

Unknown artist
Beheading of Louis XVI, King of France (1754–1793; r. 1774–92), dated 1793
Lead-tin alloy, cast
Diam.: 1 3/4 in. (4.49 cm)
The Frick Collection; Gift of Stephen K. and Janie Woo Scher, 2016

Cat. 93