The People 1
Fine Arts Exhibition
The People 2
The People 3

The People

Bastille, Paris

🏰Spot Notre-Dame in the smoky background
📖Believed to have inspired Les Misérables
🗺️Denon Wing, Room 700-702

Delacroix's bare-breasted Liberty waves the tricolor over fallen revolutionaries in this fiery allegory of the 1830 uprising. Rich and poor, young and old fight side by side in a Romantic masterpiece that became France's symbol of freedom.

Iconic French painting
Revolutionary history
Romanticism masterpiece
Symbol of freedom

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