Images

The Vision of Robespierre, a painting by French painter Jean-Joseph Weerts, sometime before 1927. Musée d'Art et d'Industrie, Roubaix.

A stamp from Revolutionary France in 1794, referencing Maximilien Robespierre's Cult of the Supreme Being. It reads: "The People of France Recognize the Supreme Being and the Immortality of the Soul". Bibliothèque nationale de France...

Depiction of the Festival of the Supreme Being, 20 Prairial Year II (8 June 1794), unknown artist, c. 1794. Musée Carnavalet.

Lazare Carnot, member of the Committee of Public Safety and nicknamed "Organizer of Victory", portrait by Louis-Léopold Boilly.

Committee of Public Safety emblem, 1794. Designed by Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne and Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois.

The Triumvirate of the Terror: Louis Antoine Saint-Just (left), Maximilien Robespierre (center), Georges Couthon (right). Unknown author, 1794.

Bertrand Barère, French revolutionary leader most famous for his position on the Committee of Public Safety during the Reign of Terror, oil on canvas portrait by Jean-Louis Laneuville, c. 1793-94. Kunsthalle, Bremen.

A political cartoon showing Maximilien Robespierre guillotining the executioner after having already guillotined everyone else in France. A commentary on the Reign of Terror. Unknown author, c. 1794. National Library of France, Paris...

Maximilien Robespierre dressed in the all-black attire of a deputy of the Third Estate, during the Estates-General of 1789 and the National Constituent Assembly. Oil on canvas portrait by Pierre-Roch Vigneron, after a pastel drawing by Adélaïde...

A scan of a 1936 Australian postage stamp commemorating the opening of the undersea cable from Tasmania (Stanley) to the mainland (Apollo Bay, Victoria) depicting Amphitrite.