xml/lby.00116.xml Icons of Liberty: The Fight for the Hôtel-de-Ville, 28 July 1830

Jean-Victor Schnetz, The Fight for the Hôtel-de-Ville, 28 July 1830 (1834)

Jean-Victor Schnetz, The Fight for the Hôtel-de-Ville, 28 July 1830 (1834). Musée du Petit Palais, Paris. Reproduced from Michael Marrinan, Painting Politics for Louis-Philippe: Art and Ideology in Orléanist France, 1830-1848, Yale University Press, 1988, Plate 5. Schnetz's painting shows students, workers and bourgeoisie fighting side by side during the 1830 revolution in Paris.