Delacroix

Liberty Leading the People

The leader of French Romantic painting. Where the classicists prized line, Delacroix unleashed color — violent, dramatic, and expressive. Liberty Leading the People remains the most iconic image of revolution in Western art.

Key works

• Liberty Leading the People1830— Revolution as Romantic icon
  Louvre, Paris
• Death of Sardanapalus1827— Orientalist excess and destruction
  Louvre, Paris

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