Back ሕዝቡን የመራች ነፃነት Amharic الحرية تقود الشعب (لوحة) Arabic الحريه تقود الشعب ARZ La Llibertá guiando al pueblu AST Azadlıq barrikadalarda Azerbaijani Свабода, якая вядзе народ Byelorussian Свободата води народа Bulgarian লিবার্টি লিডিং দ্যা পিপল Bengali/Bangla La liberté guidant le peuple Breton La llibertat guiant el poble Catalan
| 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