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.
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Year Created LocationMusee du Louvre, Paris, France 1 Medium
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Created By
Source Gardner's Art Through the AgesFred S. Kleiner (after Helen Gardner)
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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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