# Liberty Leading the People

By [Eugène Delacroix](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/artists/eugene-delacroix.md>), 1830.

An allegorical Liberty advances over a barricade with citizens from different social classes, joining history painting to revolutionary urgency.

## Details

- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 260 × 325 cm
- Collection: [Musée du Louvre](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/galleries/louvre.md>)

[View collection record](<https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010065872>)

- Categories: Painting
- Styles: [Romanticism](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/styles/romanticism.md>)

## Image

![A woman carrying the French tricolor leads armed citizens forward across a barricade.](<https://api.art.jpamorgan.com/artifacts/louvre-liberty/full.jpg?v=c12d15f7091a1fabc5126976b112ee4ad0cf9d6837f561ad1cf59ab10578a8ac>)

## Sources & credits

- Image via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
- Collection of the Musée du Louvre
- [Image source](<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eug%C3%A8ne_Delacroix_-_La_libert%C3%A9_guidant_le_peuple.jpg>)
- Artwork metadata based on Musée du Louvre collection records; image provenance is recorded per artwork.

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