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.

Exhibition Venue

Louvre Museum

Paris, France