Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People would have been radical for its _____ stance. You entered the wrong email. Clearly, this monumental statue is not a portrait of a woman named Liberty who wears a Roman toga, carries a torch, and an inscribed tablet. Instead, she serves as an allegory—in this instance, a pictorial device intended to reveal a moral or political idea—of Liberty. Smarthistory’s free, award-winning digital content unlocks the expertise of hundreds of leading scholars, making the history of art accessible and engaging to more people, in more places, than any other provider.We believe art has the power to transform lives and to build understanding across cultures. The figure of Liberty is also viewed as a symbol of France and the French Republic known as Marianne Photo of Liberty Leading the People at Louvre The work was bought for three thousand francs at the Salon of 1831 by Louis-Philippe, for the Royal Museum, then in the Palais du Luxembourg, and was transferred to the Louvre in 1874. Indeed, Delacroix depicts an event from the July Revolution of 1830, an event that replaced the abdicated King Charles X (r. 1824-30)—a member of the Bourbon family and the younger brother of the guillotined King Louis XVI (r. 1774-1792)—with Louis Philippe I (r. 1830-48), the so-called Citizen King. It is the music of a people. Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World), 1886: It is said that the Statue of Liberty was inspired by Delacroix's very own personified character of Liberty in his July 28: Liberty Leading the People.
Liberty Leading the People shows a woman, in the centre of a mass of soldiers and a group of men who may be either dead or dying. In this, she is similar to an example familiar to those in the United States, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi’s (1886). In 1824, for example, Delacroix exhibited his monumental at the annual French Salon. The white cockade and red ribbon secured to his beret also identify his revolutionary sensibilities.Cite this page as: Dr. Bryan Zygmont, "A-Level: Eugène Delacroix, A brief history of the representation of the body in Western paintingA brief history of the representation of the body in Western sculptureThe conservator's eye—Marble statue of a wounded warriorAdriaen de Vries's bronze casting technique: direct lost-wax methodSacred space and symbolic form at Lakshmana Temple, Khajuraho (India)Haussmann the Demolisher and the creation of modern ParisLooking east—how Japan inspired Monet, Van Gogh and other Western artistsFrench artists in early nineteenth century could be broadly placed into one of two different camps. The French government bought the painting in 1831, with plans to hang it in the room of the new king Louis-Philippe, but it was soon taken down for its revolutionary content.
He wears a black top hat, an open-collared white shirt and cravat, and an elegantly tailored black coat. last edit: 2 Oct, 2019 by xennex Delacroix wrote in a letter to his brother that a bad mood that had been hold of him was lifting due to the painting on which he was embarking (the Liberty painting), and that if he could not fight for his country then at least he would paint for it. When corresponding with his brother on 28 October 1830—less than three months after the July Revolution, Delacroix wrote, “I have undertaken a modern subject, a barricade, and although I may not have fought for my country, at least I shall have painted for her. The Neoclassically trained Ingres led the first group, a collection of artists called the Poussinists (named after the French baroque painter Nicolas Poussin). This uprising of 1830 was the historical prelude to the June Rebellion of 1832, an event featured in Victor Hugo’s famous novel, Les Misérables (1862), and the musical (1980) and films that followed.