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Summary

Eugène Delacroix: Liberty Leading the People

Artist



Alternative names	Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix
Description	French painter, drawer, aquarellist and photographer
Date of birth/death	26 April 1798	13 August 1863
Location of birth/death	Charenton-Saint-Maurice	Paris
Work location	Paris, United Kingdom, France, Algeria, Morocco, Netherlands (1839), Belgium
Authority control	: Q33477 VIAF: 7389086 ISNI: 0000 0001 2098 8878 ULAN: 500115509 LCCN: n79086855 NLA: 35034640 WorldCat

Title

Liberty Leading the People

Object type

painting

Genre

history painting

Description

Romantic history painting. Commemorates the French Revolution of 1830 (July Revolution) on 28 July 1830.

Date

between October 1830 and December 1830

Romanticism (18^th century –19^th century )

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

Height: 260 cm (102.3 in)

; Width: 325 cm (10.6 ft)

Collection

Louvre Museum (Inventory)

	Native name	Musée du Louvre
	Parent institution	Établissement public du musée du Louvre
	Location	Paris
	Coordinates	48° 51′ 37.42″ N, 2° 20′ 15.36″ E
	Established	1793
	Web page	www.louvre.fr
	Authority control	: Q19675 VIAF: 257711507 ISNI: 0000 0001 2260 177X ULAN: 500125189 LCCN: n80020283 NLA: 35912436 WorldCat

Current location

Department of Paintings of the Louvre

Room 700

Accession number

RF 129 (Department of Paintings of the Louvre)

Place of creation

Paris

Object history

1831: acquired by Luxembourg Museum, Paris from Eugène Delacroix.
Acquired at the Salon of 1831

1874: transferred to Musée du Louvre, Paris

Exhibition history

Salon des artistes français, Louvre Palace, Paris, 1831
Louvre-Lens, Galerie du Temps (2013) (4 December 2012-3 December 2013, liste), object # 212

Inscriptions

Signature and date center right: Eug. Delacroix 1830

References

Louvre
Musée du Louvre, Atlas database: entry 22746
Joconde database: entry 000PE000957
Video: Liberty Leading the People, Accidental Icon? (26 min, Canal Educatif, en)

Podcast of BBC Radio 4's In Our Time on Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People

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Source/Photographer

This page from 1st-art-gallery.com

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This image was selected as a picture of the week on the Persian Wikipedia for the 4^th week, 2011.

This image was selected as picture of the day on Wikimedia Commons for 12 February 2005. It was captioned as follows:

English: Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix, 1833

Čeština : Svoboda vedoucí lid od Eugena Delacroix (1833)

Deutsch: ‚Die Freiheit führt das Volk’ von Eugène Delacroix (1833)

English: Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix, 1833

Español : La Libertad guiando al Pueblo, cuadro de Eugène Delacroix (1833).

Esperanto: Libereco Ĉefa La homoj de Eugène Delacroix, 1833

Français : La liberté guidant le peuple. Tableau d'Eugène Delacroix.

Italiano : La libertà che guida il popolo, di Eugène Delacroix, 1833

Lëtzebuergesch: La liberté guidant le peuple vum Eugène Delacroix (1833).

Magyar : Eugène Delacroix: A Szabadság vezeti a népet (1833)

Nederlands: De Vrijheid voert het Volk aan van Eugène Delacroix (1833)

Norsk bokmål: Friheiten på barrikadane av Eugène Delacroix, 1833

Polski: Obraz Eugène Delacroix Wolność wiodąca lud na barykady (1833).

Português : A Liberdade guiando o povo, Eugène Delacroix, 1833

Suomi: Eugène Delacroixin "Vapaus johtaa kansaa".

Svenska: Friheten på barrikaderna av Eugène Delacroix, 1833

Türkçe: Eugène Ferdinand Victor Delacroix'un Halka Yol Gösteren Özgürlük adlı eseri , 1833

Български : „Свободата, водеща народа“ от Йожен Дьолакроа (1833)

Русский : «Свобода, ведущая народ» Эжен Делакруа, 1833

日本語： 1833年、ウジェーヌ・ドラクロワ作『民衆を導く自由の女神』

中文：《自由引导人民》欧仁·德拉克罗瓦1830年创作

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	23:08, 10 July 2013	3,133 × 2,480 (1.81 MB)	Soerfm	Brightness
	08:29, 19 October 2011	3,133 × 2,480 (1.65 MB)	1970gemini	Quality-Update
	06:22, 24 November 2010	3,133 × 2,480 (4.5 MB)	Aavindraa	biggest resolution i could find
	21:40, 21 July 2009	1,687 × 1,340 (2.78 MB)	Paris 16	better quality
	05:43, 20 April 2009	1,241 × 1,022 (172 KB)	Anetode	Reverted to version as of 17:45, 1 June 2007: larger version had jpg artifacts & the color was too warm
	01:11, 11 May 2008	1,400 × 1,110 (203 KB)	Paris 16
	17:45, 1 June 2007	1,241 × 1,022 (172 KB)	The art master	\|Source=http://www.1st-art-gallery.com/Eugene-Delacroix/Liberty-Leading-The-People-28th-July-1830.html \|Source=http://www.1st-art-gallery.com/Eugene-Delacroix/Liberty-Leading-The-People-28th-July-1830.html
	17:43, 1 June 2007	1,241 × 1,022 (172 KB)	The art master	\|Source= http://www.1st-art-gallery.com/Eugene-Delacroix/Liberty-Leading-The-People-28th-July-1830.html \|Source= http://www.1st-art-gallery.com/Eugene-Delacroix/Eugene-Delacroix-oil-paintings.html \|other_versions= High Res image
	10:06, 14 August 2005	1,241 × 1,022 (172 KB)	Yann	same image with bigger resolution.