Le 28 juillet 1830. La Liberté guidant le peuple

Le 28 juillet 1830. La Liberté guidant le peuple

Delacroix, Eugène France

Details

Dimensions
Hauteur 2,6 m; Hauteur avec accessoire 2,97 m; Largeur 3,25 m; Largeur avec accessoire 3,65 m
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

  • 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.

  • Conflict Visual · 99%

    Firearms, swords, smoke, barricade debris, advancing figures, and numerous dead or wounded bodies establish a scene of violent confrontation.

  • Allegory Both · 95%

    The title identifies the central flag-bearing woman as Liberty, and her elevated position and personifying presentation support an allegorical reading.

  • Crowds Visual · 98%

    A dense group of overlapping figures fills the middle ground and advances behind the central flag-bearing figure.

  • Movement Visual · 97%

    Striding bodies, raised arms, flying fabric, and diagonally held weapons create a strong sense of forward motion.

Styles and Movements

  • 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

  • Dynamism Visual · 97%

    Strong diagonals, animated gestures, turbulent smoke, and sharp contrasts between light and dark masses produce an energetic composition.

Medium and Techniques

  • 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.

  • Oil Painting Metadata · 100%

    The canonical medium is recorded as huile sur toile, or oil on canvas.

  • 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

Geographic Regions

  • French Art Metadata · 99%

    The canonical artist display identifies Delacroix with France.

Source & rights

Eugène Delacroix. photo Shonagon 2024-05-02