Liberty Leading the People
Painting by Eugène Delacroix / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Liberty Leading the People (French: La Liberté guidant le peuple [la libɛʁte ɡidɑ̃ lə pœpl]) 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 leads a varied group of people forward over a barricade and the bodies of the fallen, 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.[3][4]
Liberty Leading the People | |
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French: La Liberté guidant le peuple | |
Artist | Eugène Delacroix |
Year | 1830 |
Medium | Oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 260 cm × 325 cm (102.4 in × 128.0 in) |
Location | Louvre (currently off display)[1], Paris[2] |
Liberty Leading the People is exhibited in the Louvre in Paris.