Liberty Leading the People

Liberty Leading the People
French: La Liberté guidant le peuple
ArtistEugène Delacroix
Year1830
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions260 cm × 325 cm (102.4 in × 128.0 in)
LocationLouvre, Paris[1]

Liberty Leading the People (French: La Liberté guidant le peuple [la libɛʁte ɡidɑ̃ 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.[2][3]

Liberty Leading the People is exhibited in the Louvre in Paris.

  1. ^ Dorbani, Malika Bouabdellah. "July 28: Liberty Leading the People". Musée du Louvre. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
  2. ^ Jones, Jonathan (1 April 2005). "Cry freedom". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 December 2023. It is the definitive image of the French Revolution - and yet Eugène Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People does not portray the French Revolution at all...This scene, it tells us, took place on July 28 1830.
  3. ^ Marilyn, Yalom (1997). A history of the breast. Random House. p. 122. ISBN 978-0-679-43459-7. as in Delacroix's famous painting Liberty Leading the People, which was not about the revolution of 1789, as most people assume, but the bloody uprising of 1830

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