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This painting shows the Third Estate gathered together at an indoor tennis court after King Louis XVI locked the meeting hall at
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to Daniel Isoard de
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and was now considered as a traitor by public opinion. A large number of deputies to the
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to launch a national subscription to fund a painting to depict the event. He exhibited a pen and brown ink drawing of his planned painting in the
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thus decided to fund the work from the public treasury instead, topped up by selling engravings of the painting.
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