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Delacroix's allegory of the 1830 July Revolution shows a bare-breasted figure of Liberty striding over the barricades, tricolour in hand, leading a mixed crowd of fighters. Equal parts reportage and myth, it became an enduring emblem of revolution and once graced the French 100-franc note.
Liberty Leading the People
- Date1830
- MovementRomanticism
- WhereLouvre, Paris
- RegionFrance