Who painted 'Liberty Leading the People'?

Who painted “Liberty Leading the People”? Eugène Delacroix painted it in 1830.

The French Romantic artist created the monumental oil painting after the July Revolution, the three-day uprising that toppled King Charles X. At its center, Liberty appears as a bare-footed, bare-breasted allegorical woman carrying the French tricolour and a bayonetted musket over a barricade.

The figures beside her represent people from different social groups, including a worker, a young boy with pistols, and a bourgeois man wearing a top hat. Liberty is also associated with Marianne, the symbolic personification of France and the French Republic. The painting is now in the Louvre in Paris.

It is often mistakenly linked to the French Revolution of 1789, but its subject is the July Revolution of 1830. The tricolour flag and Phrygian cap connect the painting to earlier revolutionary imagery, while Delacroix’s energetic colour and dramatic composition make it a defining work of French Romanticism.