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 (currently off display)[1], Paris[2]

Liberty Leading the People (French: La Liberté guidant le peuple [la libɛʁte ɡidɑ̃ pœpl]) is a painting by Eugène Delacroix commemorating the July Revolution of 1830, which 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 is exhibited in the Louvre in Paris.

  1. ^ AFP (22 September 2023). "Iconic French 'Liberty' painting to don 'renewed radiance' as Louvre Museum plans facelift". News24. Archived from the original on 18 January 2024. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
  2. ^ Dorbani, Malika Bouabdellah. "July 28: Liberty Leading the People". Musée du Louvre. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Marilyn, Yalom (1997). A history of the breast. Random House. p. 122. 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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