xml/lby.00149.xml Icons of Liberty: La Génie de la Liberté

Auguste Dumont, La Génie de la Liberté (1836-1840)

Auguste Dumont, La Génie de la Liberté (1836-40). Bronze. Musée du Louvre, Paris. Reproduced from Liberty: The French-American Statue in Art and History, Perennial Library, 1986, 81. Dumont's statue was, along with Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People, one of the primary influences on Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty.

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