Liberty leading the people
Eugene Delacroix’s French liberty painting is one of the most famous paintings inspired by the French Revolution. Delacroix was more directly influenced by the July Revolution of 1830 in Liberty Leading the People, but this does not imply that there is no connection. The picture is recognized as one of the best examples of the Romanticist movement and represents a culmination of David, Robert, and other artists' early Romantic experiments after the end of the revolution.
This painting depicts a woman leading a group of people while wearing a Phrygian cap that represents Liberty as they pass over fallen victims' bodies and barriers. She is brandishing a tricolor flag—the banner of the French Revolution—with one hand and waving a weapon in the other.
Leaders come and go, but ideals endure thanks to the personification of liberty in the picture. As a collective representation of everyone who had died in the fight for freedom, she marches over bodies. Delacroix uses the fact that she is surrounded by revolutionaries from various socioeconomic backgrounds to emphasize the importance of working together when establishing a new country.
