1 Prairial, Year III

A man wearing what might be a butcher’s outfit is rolling up his sleeve in the foreground, ready to use his knife on a man held down by two others as the revolt rages around them. On 1 Prairial, Year III—or May 20, 1795—a popular revolt took place that failed to restore a government controlled by the Mountain. The insurgents swept into the Convention, killing Deputy Féraud and brandishing his head on a pike.

The caption reads in the original French: 1^er Prairial, An 3.