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Painting by Eugene Delacroix

The Painting Depicts People of France Being led to the Baricades by Lady Liberty. The Image Depicts one of the most well known examples of a revolution Ending in Miserable Failure. Corpses of French Soldiers lay below Lady Liberty as a foundation for her to tread, and she bears a Phrygian cap as a symbol of Liberty during the French revolution of 1789-94. Scholars Believe that the painting symbolizes/means the end of an age and the Beginning of the Romantic era and stood for the Pursuit of freedom. There is a Subtle Emphasis On Liberty herself, Her position in the image as well as the fact that she has lighter colors than the rest of the painting gives her a sense of importance and an almost angelic presence. Just as the light of the image focuses on liberty herself you can see within it that it goes from quite dark at the edges to very bright at liberties standing point, this is the same with the colors becoming darker to brighter. The living soldiers were placed behind Liberty to the left and the corpses and city were placed to the right, this gives the feeling that the army is headed in the direction of the city.

Eugne Delacroix (portrait by Nadar)

Euge`ne Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People 1830. Oil on canvas, 259 cm 325 cm, Louvre, Paris.

French Romanticist painter Eugene Delacroix Painted Liberty Leading the People for the heroes of the Barricades (of the Trois Glorieuses) as a Tribute. He completed the painting in December of 1830 (Approximately 3 months of Work starting in October). At the Salon of 1831 Delacoix showed Liberty and 35 other works in commemoration for the Trois Glorieuses and the following burials.

Some critics complained that due to Liberty being very common and ugly looking she could not Depict such an ideal, while others so no problems and decided artistic license was implied by Delacroix and Praising the creation of a new idiom due to his avoidance of including references to specified actions and locations. In 1832 the Luxembourg Gallery obtained the painting and put it into storage due to fear of negative memories of the Bourbon's Supporters Defeat. Briefly it was again displayed in 1874 at the Louvre, but from 1979-1994 it was stored at the back of a Hundred-franc note.

~ Joey Chiodi

Citations
Pioch, Nicolas. (August 4th 2002). Delacroix, Eugne. Web Museum Paris. Retrieved from http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/delacroix/ Geran Pilon, Juliana. (2000). From Voting to Violence: Democratization and Nationalist Conflict. International Foundation for Electoral Systems. Retrieved from http://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/cato-journal/2000/11/cj20n2-10.pdf Lee, Simon. (June 2012). LIBERTY LEADING THE PEOPLE ( http://cw.routledge.com/ref/romanticera/liberty.pdf ). Retrieved from

H.N. Abrams. (November 2012). Eugne Delacroix (1798-1863) : paintings, drawings, and prints from North American collections. Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications. Retrieved from http://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15324coll10/id/59744

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