Liberty Leading the People

1830

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Artist: Eugène Delacroix
Date: 1830
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: Wikimedia Commons
Credit: Musée du Louvre; public-domain reproduction via Wikimedia Commons

About Liberty Leading the People

Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People responds to the July Revolution of 1830 in France, rather than the Revolution of 1789. A symbolic figure of Liberty carries the tricolor flag above a crowd crossing a barricade. Realistic details and allegory share the same space. The painting belongs to the Louvre and is a central work of French Romanticism.

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