| Liberty Leading the People | |
|---|---|
| French: La Liberté guidant le peuple | |
 The painting after the 2024 restoration | |
| Artist | Eugène Delacroix |
| Year | 1830 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 260 cm × 325 cm (102.4 in × 128.0 in) |
| Location | Louvre, Paris[1] |
Liberty Leading the People (French: La Liberté guidant le peuple [la libɛʁte ɡidɑ̃ lə 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 (r. 1824-1830). A bare-breasted “woman of the people” with a Phrygian cap personifying the concept and Goddess of Liberty, accompanied by a young boy brandishing a pistol in each hand, leads a group of various people forward over a barricade and the bodies of the fallen while 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.
- ^ Dorbani, Malika Bouabdellah. "July 28: Liberty Leading the People". Musée du Louvre. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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