Liberty Leading the People

Eugène Delacroix

1830 · Oil on canvas · Musée du Louvre, Paris

Size2:3 ratio

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About this work

Artist: Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863)
Year: 1830
Medium: Oil on canvas
Original size: 260 × 325 cm
Collection: Musée du Louvre, Paris
Movement: Romanticism

A bare-breasted woman in a Phrygian cap strides over a barricade of corpses holding the tricolour aloft in one hand and a musket in the other, leading a workman with a sabre, a top-hatted bourgeois with a rifle and a boy brandishing pistols, with the towers of Notre-Dame in the smoke behind. Delacroix painted it in the autumn of 1830 to commemorate the July Revolution that had toppled Charles X a few months earlier. He wrote to his brother that if he had not fought for his country he would at least paint for it. The allegorical figure of Liberty among real Parisians was new. The French state bought it in 1831, but it was judged too inflammatory to display for long and did not hang permanently in the Louvre until 1874.

This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.

Where it works

Smoke, a tricolour and a surging crowd want scale and a public room: a living room, hallway or office at 24×36 in black. It holds a dark or deep red wall and should hang alone, not in a gallery cluster.

Style, size & framing detail

Style: Exhibition poster of a Romanticism painting
Era: 19th century (1830)
Orientation: Portrait
Palette: cream & beige
Mood: grand
Rooms: living room, hallway or entryway, home office, dining room
Good gift for: housewarming, art lovers

Size. We'd hang this one at 24×36. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.

Framing. Exhibition posters sit best in a slim black frame with no mat — the typeset margin is the mat.

Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).

Details & materials

• Exhibition poster — original, drawn in-house • Heavyweight matte fine-art paper, giclée printed at 300 DPI • Sizes: 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in; every size also available framed • Framed option: wood frame in black or natural wood, 12 mm wide and 22 mm deep, with a plexiglass front and no mat; the print is mounted inside and the frame's outside measures the listed size • Made to order; colours may vary slightly from screen

Shipping & returns

Printed after you order at the facility nearest you, then shipped. Standard delivery is free and takes 4–9 business days from order to door in the US, UK and EU (up to 10 elsewhere); Express takes 4–6 business days. Because each print is made to order we don't take change-of-mind returns, but if it arrives damaged or flawed we'll reprint or refund it — no return needed. Full policy →

Is this the whole painting, or a crop?

The whole work, uncropped. The exhibition-poster edition sets the complete image above typography designed in-house.

Is Liberty Leading the People in the public domain?

Yes. Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) died more than 70 years ago and the work was published before 1929, so the painting itself is public domain. This print is a reproduction made from a high-resolution scan of the original, which is held by Musée du Louvre.

What is it printed on?

Heavyweight matte fine-art paper with pigment inks, made to order in 12×18, 16×24 and 24×36 inches; every size is also offered framed in black or natural wood, with plexiglass and no mat. Colours are matched to the scan, not brightened.

When was Liberty Leading the People painted, and in what medium?

Liberty Leading the People dates from 1830 and was made in oil on canvas; the original measures 260 × 325 cm.

What size works above a sofa or bed?

Across a three-seat sofa or a queen bed, 24×36 is the size that reads as one statement piece; 16×24 suits a narrower wall or a pair. For Liberty Leading the People we'd choose 24×36.

About this design

A blockbuster-style exhibition poster of Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People — the whole revolutionary scene shown uncropped on a deep ground from the work, under gallery typography. A defining image of Romanticism, made to hang like a museum print. A gallery-style exhibition poster: a celebrated public-domain artwork shown whole and uncropped beneath original exhibition typography set in-house — printed to order on heavyweight matte fine-art paper. Every size is offered unframed or framed in black or natural wood. Part of the Madten Exhibition Posters Collection. — — — Printed to order and shipped by our production partner, Gelato.

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Arrives perfect or we reprint it — free. Every piece is made to order; if it shows up damaged or flawed we remake it, no return needed.

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