Liberty Leading the People
1830
Stepping over the bodies of the fallen, a bare-breasted woman waves the French tricolor flag high above a chaotic barricade in this explosive scene from the 1830 July Revolution. Delacroix’s masterpiece of Romanticism mixes gritty reality with pure allegory, showing a factory worker, a bourgeois in a top hat, and a street urchin all fighting side-by-side for freedom. That fierce woman isn't just a random rebel; she is Marianne, the national symbol of France, and her powerful pose actually inspired the design of the Statue of Liberty! You can still see her rallying the troops today at the Louvre Museum in Paris.
Location: Louvre Museum, Paris
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