Painting of the Week: Liberty Leading the People

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A pivotal masterpiece in the dawn of romanticism by the French romantic painter Eugène Delacroix

Via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jyq1lHS_W0

Louvre

1st Floor: Paintings, Room 77

"Liberty Leading the People"

by Eugène Delacroix

EUGÈNE DELACROIX : Liberty Leading the People Accidental Icon? Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People