xml/lby.00117.xml Icons of Liberty: The 28th of July: Liberty Leading the People

Eugène Delacroix, The 28th of July: Liberty Leading the People (1831)

Eugène Delacroix, The 28th of July: Liberty Leading the People (1831). Musée du Louvre, Paris. Reproduced from Michael Marrinan, Painting Politics for Louis-Philippe: Art and Ideology in Orléanist France, 1830-1848, Yale University Press, 1988, Plate 4. Delacroix's famous image shows Liberty leading a disparate group of revolutionaries in 1830 Paris.

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