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After the workers' revolution of June 1848, the government of Louis Philippe reacted with strong repression, issuing death sentences, thousands of imprisonments and deportations to Algeria. Such events inspired Daumier on this painting, as well as a series of oil paintings, lithographs, and several reliefs titled The Emigrants, The Fugitives, and The Detainees.
Louis Philippe Algeria