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
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
Marianne
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Marianne has been the national personification of the French Republic since the French Revolution, as an emblem of liberty, equality, fraternity and reason, as well as a portrayal of the Goddess of Li
Liberty Leading the People
…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. Liberty Leading the People is exhibited in the Louvre in Paris…
Bust of Marianne sculpted by Théodore Doriot, in the French Senate
Marianne on a poster, the Year III of the Republic