Liberty Leading the People is Eugene Delacroix's 1830 painting commemorating the July Revolution of that year, showing an allegorical bare-breasted figure of Liberty carrying the French tricolor and a bayoneted musket over a barricade, leading a mixed crowd of armed citizens forward across the bodies of the fallen. Its dramatic composition, dynamic diagonal movement and unidealized, contemporary-dressed figures exemplify the qualities, color and emotion over academic restraint, that made Delacroix the leading painter of French Romanticism.
Facts
Year Created LocationMusee du Louvre, Paris, France 1 Connections
Created By
Source Gardner's Art Through the AgesFred S. Kleiner (after Helen Gardner)
In Form
In Movement
Source Gardner's Art Through the AgesFred S. Kleiner (after Helen Gardner)
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: France, located there.
Sources
1. Gardner's Art Through the Ages
Fred S. Kleiner (after Helen Gardner), Cengage Learning- chapter on Romanticism, section on Eugene Delacroix
Genre reference
Liberty Leading the People is Eugene Delacroix's 1830 painting commemorating the July Revolution of that year, showing an allegorical bare-breasted figure of Liberty carrying the French tricolor and a bayoneted musket over a barricade, leading a mixed crowd of armed citizens forward across the bodies of the fallen.
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