Eugène Delacroix
Liberty Leading the People
1830
Eugène Delacroix painted 'Liberty Leading the People' ('La Liberté guidant le peuple') in the autumn of 1830 to commemorate the July Revolution that had just overthrown Charles X. A bare-breasted allegory of Liberty, tricolour held aloft, strides over a barricade of the fallen with a raised musket, leading armed Parisians of every class into the fight. It became the defining image of 19th-century European revolution, and today hangs at the Louvre as one of the icons of the French Republic.
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