Liberty Leading the People

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Romantic painting painting

"Liberty Leading the People" is a famous 1830 Romantic painting by Eugène Delacroix that allegorically commemorates the July Revolution in France, depicting a personified Liberty leading a diverse group of revolutionaries over the barricades.

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La Liberté guidant le peuple 1

Statements (51)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Romantic painting ⓘ
painting ⓘ
artworkStyle Romanticism ⓘ
collection Louvre Museum ⓘ
surface form: Musée du Louvre
commissionedBy Government of France ⓘ
surface form: French government
countryOfOrigin France ⓘ
creator Eugène Delacroix ⓘ
depicts French tricolour flag ⓘ
July Revolution in France ⓘ
surface form: July Revolution of 1830

Notre-Dame Cathedral ⓘ
surface form: Notre-Dame de Paris

Paris cityscape ⓘ
Olympic Phryge ⓘ
surface form: Phrygian cap

bare-breasted female figure ⓘ
barricade ⓘ
boy with pistols ⓘ
dead bodies ⓘ
musket ⓘ
personification of Liberty ⓘ
pistol ⓘ
revolutionaries ⓘ
sabre ⓘ
smoke ⓘ
top-hatted bourgeois man ⓘ
worker in a cap ⓘ
depictsEvent July Revolution in France ⓘ
surface form: July Revolution
depictsSymbol Liberty ⓘ
surface form: liberty

national unity ⓘ
revolution ⓘ
genre allegorical painting ⓘ
history painting ⓘ
hasEffect became symbol of French Republic ⓘ
influenced later revolutionary imagery ⓘ
hasPart Notre-Dame Cathedral ⓘ
surface form: Notre-Dame de Paris

Olympic Phryge ⓘ
surface form: Phrygian cap

armed insurgents ⓘ
barricade ⓘ
dead soldiers ⓘ
tricolour flag ⓘ
inception 1830 ⓘ
inspiredBy July Ordinances of 1830 ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName French ⓘ
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity Paris ⓘ
Île-de-France region ⓘ
surface form: Île-de-France
locatedInTheCountry France ⓘ
location Louvre Museum ⓘ
mainCharacter Liberty ⓘ
bourgeois insurgent ⓘ
boy with pistols ⓘ
worker insurgent ⓘ
movement Romanticism ⓘ
originalTitle Liberty Leading the People self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: La Liberté guidant le peuple

Referenced by (4)

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Denon Wing → housesArtwork → Liberty Leading the People ⓘ
Eugène Delacroix → notableWork → Liberty Leading the People ⓘ
Louvre Museum → notableWork → Liberty Leading the People ⓘ
Liberty Leading the People → originalTitle → Liberty Leading the People self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: La Liberté guidant le peuple