John Gast (painter)
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John Gast was a Prussian-born American painter and lithographer.
American Progress, 1872
Liberty Leading the People
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Liberty Leading the People is a painting of the Romantic era by the French artist Eugène Delacroix, commemorating the July Revolution of 1830 that toppled King Charles X. A bare-breasted "woman of the
John Gast (painter)
…his many travel guides to the American West. The painting glorified westward expansion and is considered the American equivalent to Eugène Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People (1830). Some of Gast's other paintings include: Bluffs on the Mississippi Below the Arsenal (1865), Angel Sitting on Mountain Top (1871), untitled…
The painting after the 2024 restoration
Liberty Leading the People before restoration
Freedom for France, Freedoms for the French (1940), a poster depicting Marianne
Félix Nadar 1820 1910 portraits Eugène Delacroix