Justice and Divine Vengeance pursuing Crime

Commissioned by the Prefect of the Seine, Nicolas Frochot,
in 1804 or 1805 for the Salle des Assises (Court of Assizes)
of the Palais de Justice in Paris; painted in
Prud'hon's atelier at the Sorbonne; sketched before 1806;
finished for the Salon of 1808; placed in the
tribunal criminel (Criminal court) of the Palais de
Justice in Paris in 1809; was part of the exhibition
Prix décennaux (Prizes of the Decade) of 1810 and
at the Salon of 1814; gicven back to the artist
in November 1815 then exhibited in the Luxembourg Museum
from 1818 and in the Louvre after the artist's death
in November 1815.