Liberty Leading the People
The July Revolution of 1830; its tricolour-bearing Marianne became France's emblem
- Author
- Eugène Delacroix
- Style
- Romanticism — Feeling and the elements over reason: the lone hero, storm, ruins and the national past
- Century
- 19th century
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