Le 28 juillet 1830. La Liberté guidant le peuple

This painting depicts an allegory of the July Revolution of 1830. Eugène Delacroix presents Liberty as a woman raising the French tricolour and leading fighters from different social backgrounds through barricades and over the dead. The work does not depict a single eyewitness scene, but rather a symbolic synthesis of the revolutionary momentum that led to the fall of Charles X. It became one of the most famous images in French history, embodying liberty, popular uprising, and the political memory of the 19th century.