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Liberty Leading the People
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Liberty Leading the People is a painting by Eugene Delacroix commemorating the July Revolution of 1830, which toppled King Charles X of France.
A woman of the people with a phrygian cap personifying the concept of Liberty leads the people forward over a barricade and the bodies of the fallen,
holding the flag of the French Revolution - the tricolour, which again became France's national flag after these events - in one hand and brandishing a bayonetted musket with the other.
The figure of Liberty is also viewed as a symbol of France and the French Republic known as Marianne.
The painting inspired Frederic Auguste Bartholdi's Liberty Enlightening the World, known as the Statue of Liberty in New York City,[7]
which was given to the United States as a gift from the French a half-century after Liberty Leading the People was painted.
Criticism
Liberty Leading the People is considered to be a republican and anti-monarchist symbol, and thus was sometimes criticized,[27][28][29] especially by royalists and monarchists.