Le 28 juillet 1830. La Liberté guidant le peuple
Details
- Palette
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- Medium
- huile sur toile
- Dimensions
- Hauteur 2,6 m; Hauteur avec accessoire 2,97 m; Largeur 3,25 m; Largeur avec accessoire 3,65 m
- Department
- Département des Peintures
- Holding institution
- Musée du Louvre
- Image provider
- wikimedia-commons
- License
- Public domain
- Credit
- Musée du Louvre, Département des Peintures
Art Genome Taxonomy
12 tags
Subject Matter
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Political Events Both · 99%
The title specifies 28 July 1830, while the image depicts an armed collective advance with a raised national flag, weapons, barricade rubble, and fallen bodies.
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Conflict Visual · 99%
Firearms, swords, smoke, barricade debris, advancing figures, and numerous dead or wounded bodies establish a scene of violent confrontation.
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Allegory Both · 95%
The title identifies the central flag-bearing woman as Liberty, and her elevated position and personifying presentation support an allegorical reading.
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Crowds Visual · 98%
A dense group of overlapping figures fills the middle ground and advances behind the central flag-bearing figure.
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Movement Visual · 97%
Striding bodies, raised arms, flying fabric, and diagonally held weapons create a strong sense of forward motion.
Styles and Movements
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Romanticism Interpretive · 96%
The emotionally heightened historical drama, theatrical illumination, expressive brushwork, monumental scale, and emphasis on collective struggle are characteristic of a Romantic reading.
Visual Qualities
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Dynamism Visual · 97%
Strong diagonals, animated gestures, turbulent smoke, and sharp contrasts between light and dark masses produce an energetic composition.
Medium and Techniques
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History Painting Both · 99%
The title identifies a specific historical event, and the image presents a monumental narrative scene of armed figures, casualties, barricade debris, and a city in the distance.
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Oil Painting Metadata · 100%
The canonical medium is recorded as huile sur toile, or oil on canvas.
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Large-Scale Painting Both · 98%
The catalog records dimensions of 2.6 × 3.25 meters, and the image is composed as a monumental, immersive canvas.
Time Periods
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19th Century Art Metadata · 100%
The canonical date of creation is 1830.
Geographic Regions
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French Art Metadata · 99%
The canonical artist display identifies Delacroix with France.
Source & rights
Eugène Delacroix. photo Shonagon 2024-05-02