The Triumph of Marat (French: Le Triomphe de Marat) is an oil on canvas history painting by the French artist Louis-Léopold Boilly, from 1794.^{[1] [2]} It is in the collection of the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, having been acquired in 1865.^[3]

It depicts the moment on 24 April 1793 when Jean-Paul Marat, a leader of the French Revolution, was acquitted by a Revolutionary Tribunal. He had been accused by the National Convention of insurrection against the Girondinss. Boilly shows Marat being carried by a cheering crowd of supporters, both men and women, through the Salle des Pas Perdus of the Palais de la Cité.^[4] In July of the same year Marat was assassinated by the Girondin sympathiser Charlotte Corday, leading to the Reign of Terror.

Having moved to Paris a few years before the revolution, Boilly was able to exhibit paintings at the Paris Salon at the Louvre for the first time at the Salon of 1791.^[5] He exhibited further works at the Salon of 1793 but in 1794 at the height of the Terror he was denounced for producing obscene, anti-republican art. He responded by producing a patriotic painting celebrating Marat.^[6] It also marked a shift in his work towards the crowd scenes he would become celebrated for.^[7]

• Duby, Georges & Perrot, Michelle. A History of Women in the West: Renaissance and Enlightenment Paradoxes. Harvard University Press, 1992.
• Whitlum-Cooper, Francesca. Boilly: Scenes of Parisian Life. National Gallery Company, 2019.