Liberty Leading the People, Eugène Delacroix Tissue Paper

Liberty Leading the People (July 28, 1830) (La liberté guidant le peuple/Scènes de barricades) by Eugène DELACROIX (Charenton-Saint-Maurice (Val-de-Marne), 1798 - Paris, 1863) The Paris uprising of July 27, 28, and 29, 1830, known as the Trois Glorieuses ("Three Glorious Days"), was initiated by the liberal republicans for violation of the Constitution by the Second Restoration government. Charles X, the last Bourbon king of France, was overthrown and replaced by Louis Philippe, Duke of Orléans. Delacroix, who witnessed the uprising, perceived it as a modern subject for a painting. The figure of Liberty is also viewed as a symbol of France and the French Republic known as Marianne.