Oil on canvas, 260 × 325 cm, painted by Eugène Delacroix in 1830, weeks
after the July Revolution that brought down Charles X of France. Liberty,
bare-breasted, in a Phrygian cap and carrying the tricolour, advances
over the barricades of Paris surrounded by workers, bourgeois and a boy
with two pistols who later gave Victor Hugo the idea for Gavroche in
“Les Misérables”. It is in the Louvre.
