Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The Death of Marat

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Original – La Mort de Marat or Marat Assassiné by Jacques-Louis David (1793)

Reason: The Death of Marat is perhaps the most famous image to arise out of the French Revolution, second only to the modern French flag. The painting has been cited time and again by numerous art critics as an illustration of many artistic techniques, such as negative space. The painting appears in practically every textbook that so much as touches on the French Revolution, be it in the fields of history or art. It is, in my mind at least, one of the most iconic paintings depicting a historical event of all-time, right up there with Washington Crossing the Delaware. I'm actually quite shocked it hasn't been nominated before.
Articles in which this image appears: The Death of Marat. Note that another (in my opinion, sub-par for most use-cases, and painted by the original artist's pupil) version of this painting is used on Jean-Paul Marat. An uncropped version appears on Jacques-Louis David.
FP category for this image: Artwork/Paintings
Creator: Jacques-Louis David

Support as nominator – Joshua Garner (talk) 05:07, 17 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I really thought we had an FP of this. Still, this one is a rather underexposed production. That would need to be fixed in my opinion. Samsara 17:27, 17 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Samsara I believed both of those to be true at first as well. Despite my searching, I couldn't find any version that had been nominated. In addition, while the capture appears to be underexposed, I believe closer inspection may tell a different story. Plus, I don't think someone would go through the trouble of making a 0.3 gigapixel capture and not have proper exposure. Of course, I'm not exactly an expert. Joshua Garner (talk) 19:01, 17 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I had a look at the histogram, and at the 796×1024 resolution, the top 2/5 of the histogram are unused. This may change slightly when looking at full res, as there may be additional specular highlights from the paint (as well as the general statistical properties of downscaling), but the essence of the low exposure will remain, and I believe this can be improved on. Samsara 19:20, 17 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support - Hafspajen (talk) 17:40, 17 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
~~Support~~ - Google tends to lean on the dark side, but when I look at the full size, the contrast and lighting is reasonable. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:25, 18 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Why are we nominating a crop? The original should be used. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 06:18, 19 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Crisco 1492 The "uncropped" version just has a minor amount of frayed edging. It took me a moment to realize the difference myself. Joshua Garner (talk) 06:56, 19 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The canvas itself is important - important enough that for this painting Google didn't crop it like they normally do. We lose some details (very slight, but some) with the crop. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 11:07, 19 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like this - I don't think is cropped.... Hafspajen (talk) 07:53, 19 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 13:36, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]