The Death of Marat

For this idealized depiction, Jacques-Louis David hired the premier embalming expert of the time to prepare and pose the body, and presented Marat without the hideous skin condition that necessitated his hours soaking in a medicinal bath.
On the table next to Marat, there's an assignat and a note bearing the instruction that it be given to a widow with five children who "husband has died for the patrie."
David, among several others, arranged Marat's elaborate, theatrical funeral. The ceremony was complete with a torch lit procession and the intoning of a prayer (?) beginning with the words "O heart of Jesus, O heart of Marat..." that paralleled Jesus and Marat -  under Marat's heart which was suspended from the ceiling of the hall.  The Marquise de Sade was one of the speakers at his funeral.  It must be true that one can be judged by the company one keeps.