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Romanticism · 1830
Eugène Delacroix 1798–1863
The Louvre · Paris
Bare-breasted Liberty strides over the barricades with the tricolour — Delacroix's blazing emblem of the 1830 revolution.
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Paris, eighteen thirty. In three days of July, the people rise and topple a king. Eugène Delacroix, the great Romantic painter, did not man the barricades — but he wrote to his brother: I have undertaken a modern subject, and if I have not fought for my country, at least I will paint for it.
What he paints is not quite reportage. It is revolution turned into myth.
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Room 700 · Salle Mollien · Level 1 · Denon wing
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