The Jacobin Knitters, or Robespierre's, Jean-Baptiste Lesueur, circa 1793

Jean-baptiste lesueur: les tricoteuses jacobines, around 1793. Gouache. Musée carnavalet, paris. The caption (probably added later) reads: les tricoteues jacobines, ou de robespierre. Elles étoient un grand nombre à qui l'onnoit 40 sols par jour pour aller ins la tribune des jacobins applaudir les motions révolutionnaires. An 2. ("the knitters of the jacobins or robespierre. They were numerous and were given 40 sous a day to go to the jacobin spectator gallery [in parliament] and applaud the revolutionary initiatives. In the second year [of the republic]. "). Date: circa 1793. Medium: gouache. Collection: Musée Carnavalet. Lesueur Tricoteuses 1793