Who painted the 1831 work "Liberty Leading the People"?
"Liberty Leading the People" is a painting by Eugène Delacroix commemorating the July Revolution of 1830, which toppled King Charles X of France.
A woman of the people with a phrygian cap personifying the concept of Liberty leads the people forward over a barricade and the bodies of the fallen, holding the flag of the French Revolution – the tricolour, which again became France's national flag after these events – in one hand and brandishing a bayonetted musket with the other. The figure of Liberty is also viewed as a symbol of France and the French Republic known as Marianne.
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Johnny Rock
The other three artists weren't even born when it was painted.
John W Shreve
Silly choices. The other choices should have been Thomas Kincaid, Rembrandt, and Banksy.
silrem
Agree options are ludicrous, prefer Jacques-Louis David, Ingres and Antoine-Jean Gros.