Assassinat de Michel Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau

This hand-colored print depicts the assassination of Michel Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau, which took place on 20 January 1793 at a restaurant in the Palais-Royal in Paris. The composition shows an interior scene caught at the moment of the attack, with diners, overturned furniture, and gestures of panic, giving the event strong dramatic intensity. Wikimedia Commons identifies the file as a medallion cut from plate no. 7 of the Galerie historique ou Tableaux des évènements de la Révolution française, and specifies that it is a hand-colored etching produced around 1794-1804. The work is attributed to the engraver G. Jacowick and the draughtsman Jean-François Laurent, with Chateigner as publisher. The notice also explains that Le Peletier, having voted for the death of Louis XVI, was stabbed by the former royal bodyguard Philippe Nicolas Pâris and was later elevated by the Convention to the status of a “martyr of Liberty.”