The Weight of a Final Minute Artists of the French Revolution did not only paint ideals: some captured authentic scenes of condemned individuals being escorted to the guillotine, as in the famous drawing depicting Marie Antoinette on her way to execution. This line drawing, made on October 16, 1793 by Jacques-Louis David, shows the fallen queen seated in an open cart, her hands bound, on the road to the guillotine — a scene sketched quickly from a window overlooking the route. The work emphasize