Liberty Leading the People
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 people with a Phrygian cap personifying the concept and Goddess of Liberty leads a varied group of people forward over a barricade and the bodies of the fallen, 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.
Liberty Leading the People
Freedom for France, freedoms for the French (1940), a poster depicting Marianne
West Bank Wall graffiti art: An interpretation of Liberty Leading the People on the wall which runs through Bethlehem
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school.
Portrait by Nadar, c. 1857
Portrait of Delacroix early in his career
The Massacre at Chios (1824)
Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi (1826), Musée des beaux-arts de Bordeaux