About the original painting:
“Nanine Vallain (1767–1815) was a native of Paris, born into the family of a master scribe. She took lessons in painting and drawing with Jacques-Louis David and Joseph-Benoît Suvée.
In 1793 she joined the Commune générale des arts during the brief window of time it allowed women to join. It was at this time that she produced her best-known work, an allegory of Liberty which hung in the headquarters of the Jacobins until its closing in 1794; the painting is today in the Musée de la Révolution française.”