Eugène Delacroix · 1830
Liberty Leading the People
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Delacroix's monumental allegory of the July Revolution — bare-chested Liberty, tricolor in hand, leading citizens over the barricades. The visual icon of revolutionary France.
Up to 48 × 38 in · landscape
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Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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The story of Liberty Leading the People
Liberty Leading the People is a painting of the Romantic era by the French artist Eugène Delacroix, commemorating the July Revolution of 1830 that toppled King Charles X. A bare-breasted "woman of the people" with a Phrygian cap personifying the concept and Goddess of Liberty, accompanied by a young boy brandishing a pistol in each hand, leads a group of various people forward over a barricade and the bodies of the fallen while holding aloft the flag of the French Revolution—the tricolour, which again became France's national flag after these events—in one hand, and brandishing a bayonetted musket with the other. The figure of Liberty is also viewed as a symbol of France and the French Republic known as Marianne. The painting is sometimes wrongly thought to depict the French Revolution of 1789.
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Eugène Delacroix
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix was a French Romantic artist who was regarded as the leader of the French Romantic school.
All Eugène Delacroix prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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