A young woman in a gray-and-white striped dress stands at the right, hands clasped, looking up and away toward a bright window. At the left, Marat lies in his bath with a knife in his chest and a white cloth over his head, one arm hanging toward the floor. An overturned chair, scattered papers, an inkwell on a wooden box and a map of France fill the cramped room. The painting shows the moments after Charlotte Corday stabbed the revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat in his bath on July 13, 1793.

Paul Baudry painted her life-size and signed and dated the canvas 1860. Where Jacques-Louis David's famous Death of Marat shows only the dead man, Baudry puts the killer in the picture. The city of Nantes bought it at the Salon of 1861 for its museum, and the museum lists it among its major historical paintings of the 19th century. It is in the Musée d'arts de Nantes in France.