Romanticism & Liberalism
Liberty Leading the People
Eugène Delacroix, 1830
Eugène Delacroix, painter
1798-1863
French
A big size oil on canvas painting
260 cm
x
320 cm
Pyramidal composition & light constrast
light
shadow
Romantic style
feelings
individuals
nature
freedom
Three distances in a view
background:
Paris
middleground:
the
people
foreground:
main
characters
Some keys of the painting
Where?
Paris
What
for?
Liberty
Who?
People
How?
Barricade
fight
Chronic of a Revolution (I)
symbols
of the
revolution
weapons
dead &
injured
people
royal
army
barricade
Chronic of a Revolution (II)
Charles X
LouisPhilippe
Bourbon
Absolutist
Orléans
Liberal
The «Trois Glorieuses »
27, 28 & 29 July 1830
Revolutionary France flag colours
blue
white
red
A propaganda painting (to show and not to show)
Salon, 1831 (scandal & censored)
Revolution,1848 (shown again)
Universal Exhibition,1855 (attraction)
Musée du Louvre, after 1874 (national identity icon)