- Artist
- Eugène Delacroix
- Year
- 1830
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 260 cm × 325 cm
- Source
- View Original
Painted within months of the July Revolution of 1830, Delacroix’s allegory personifies Liberty as Marianne, barefoot and brandishing the tricolore as she strides over the barricades of Paris. Fusing gritty contemporary detail with heroic allegory, the picture became an enduring republican icon and a precursor of modern political imagery. It hangs in the Louvre.