Liberty Leading the People, Eugène Delacroix
Eugène Delacroix·Liberty Leading the People·1830·Oil on canvas·Musée du Louvre, Paris↓

Eugène Delacroix French, 1798 – 1863

Liberty Leading the People, 1830

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Painted to commemorate the July Revolution of 1830, which toppled Charles X. Liberty, half goddess, half woman of the people, strides over barricade and bodies with the tricolour raised. She became Marianne, the symbol of the French Republic.

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The towers of Notre-Dame rise through the smoke on the right, fixing the scene in Paris.

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