Liberty Leading the People Delacroix
by Weston Westmoreland
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Liberty Leading the People Delacroix
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Weston Westmoreland
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
Liberty Leading the People, Eugene Delacroix, 1830.
Liberty Leading the People (La Liberté guidant le peuple) is a painting by Eugene Delacroix commemorating the July Revolution of 1830, which toppled King Charles X. A woman of the people with a Phrygian cap personifying the concept of Liberty leads a varied group of people forward over a barricade and the bodies of the fallen, holding 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.
Liberty Leading the People is exhibited in the Louvre in Paris.
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December 20th, 2022
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