Accidental Icon? Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People
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Liberty Leading the People : a painting long accepted as an iconic image of the triumphant French Republic. This was never Delacroix’s intention however; he essentially backed the Establishment, and mob violence terrified him. Is the painting’s popularity based on a total misunderstanding?
1st Floor: Paintings, Room 77
"Liberty Leading the People"
EUGÈNE DELACROIX : Liberty Leading the People Painting of the Week: Liberty Leading the People