Liberty leads the people - but now showing her true colours
The Guardian|May 02, 2024
For almost 200 years, she has been the definitive symbol of the French republic. Now, after a much-needed facelift, Eugène Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People will rise above the fray of revolutionary anarchy in her true colours once more.
Philip Oltermann 
Liberty leads the people - but now showing her true colours

The 19th-century painter's famous and widely copied Liberty Leading the People, depicting a bare-chested woman brandishing the French flag and leading armed men into battle, will be hung again at the Louvre today after a six-month effort to remove decades of varnish and grime.

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