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The Market Women Leaving Paris to Search for the King at Versailles (October 5, 1789)
Jean Louis Prieur le Jeune French
Engraver Pierre G. Berthault French
Not on view
Here, a peaceful hilly landscape is juxtaposed with an ominous crowd in the foreground. Reports of the banquet at Versailles had further aggravated the discontented Parisian populace. This culminated in the march to the palace of angry market women (and men) in search of the king.
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