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Dec 4 2010

Liberty Leading the People, Delacroix, 1830

Delacroix / French / Inspirational prints / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc

Liberty Leading the People, Delacroix, 1830

A reproduction of a work by Eugene Delacroix, “Liberty Leading the People” of 1830. This Romantic masterpiece attempts to capture the concept that Liberty herself is the motivation for the uprising of the People against Oppression. Critics greeted the work as “ignoble” yet Delacroix secures his place as a promoter of the people over the claims of the aristocrats. He places himself in the tradition of Michelangelo and Rubens by accentuating color and movement rather than form and clarity. Charles Baudelaire said, “Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, but coldly determined to express passion as clearly as possible.” The artist died in 1863 at the age of sixty-five years. The painting was placed in the Louvre in 1876 and served as the model for the Statue of Liberty.

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