Painted by Georget after “Un enfant dans son berceau, entraîné par les eaux de l’inondation du mois de nivôse an X” (A child in his cradle, swept away by the waters of the flood of the month of Nivôse, year X) by Marie-Denise Villers exhibited at the Salon in 1802. Copy sold to the prince Yusupov in 1810 and now in the collection of The State Museum Estate Archangeleskoye, Archangeleskoye.
The French Republican calendar was created and implemented during the French Revolution, and used by the French government for about 12 years from late 1793 to 1805. Therefore year X (or 10) refers to 1802. While the month of Nivôse was the first month of winter that started between December 21-23 and ended between January 19-21. That’s when the great flood took place.