Eugene Delacroix

Liberty Leading the People

US$ 699.00

Painted in the months after the July Revolution of 1830, this is not an allegory kept at a safe distance — Liberty strides forward over the bodies of the fallen, barefoot and bare-breasted, tricolour in one hand and a musket in the other, followed by a top-hatted bourgeois and a boy with pistols. Delacroix put a contemporary crowd behind a classical figure and made the combination work. The Louvre completed a full restoration in 2024, returning the colour to something close to what he intended.

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Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863) led French Romanticism and was the great colourist of his century, setting hot pigments against cold ones to make paint vibrate rather than merely describe. He kept a journal for most of his life that remains one of the best accounts we have of how a painter thinks. Where his rival Ingres prized the clean contour, Delacroix prized movement, and the argument between them shaped French painting for fifty years.

Material Archival canvas
Frame Supplied rolled, unframed
Print Fine-art print, printed to order
Size 50 × 40 inches
Delivery 2–3 weeks
Certificate of Authenticity Included, emailed on delivery
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