Eugène Delacroix. Image source · Public domain
The people behind the art
1798 to 13 August 1863
Delacroix was a leading French Romantic painter. Trained by Pierre Guérin, he first exhibited at the Salon in 1822 and drew inspiration from Rubens and English painting. His travels in Spain, Morocco and Algiers in 1832 informed later work, while official commissions occupied much of his mature career.
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Artist: Eugène Delacroix
A woman strides forward over a barricade, and a painting turns a street fight into a national symbol. This is the story of a work made in the heat of 1830, and what it asks us to see.
Artist: Eugène Delacroix
Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People shows the July Revolution of 1830 as a charge across a barricade, with an allegorical figure of Liberty raising the French tricolor above a mixed group of armed fighters. This docent-led visit explains who is in the scene, how the composition turns an event of late July into a history painting, and why the figure of Liberty stands at its centre. The account relies on the supplied institutional metadata and does not add scenes, dialogue or details beyond that record.
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