Figure Studies related to "Liberty Leading the People"

Eugène Delacroix French

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This sheet includes early sketches of the bodies featured in the foreground of Delacroix’s remarkable submission to the Salon of 1831, "Liberty Leading the People" (1830; Musée du Louvre), his only painting of contemporary events in France: the July Revolution of 1830. The sprawled corpse at center with unbuttoned trousers appears in the lower right foreground of the painting. The slightly generalized character of the figures suggests that they were likely drawn from memory, rather than directly from life—casualties observed in the street and later recalled with pen and brush.

Figure Studies related to "Liberty Leading the People", Eugène Delacroix (French, Charenton-Saint-Maurice 1798–1863 Paris), Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash

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