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Liberty leading the people.
Salon of 1831
1831 art exhibition in Paris
The Salon of 1831 was an art exhibition held at the Louvre in Paris between June and August 1831.[1] It was the first Salon during the July Monarchy and the first to be held since the Salon of 1827, as a planned exhibition of 1830 was cancelled due to the French Revolution of 1830.
Exhibition
Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix was amongst the most notable works exhibited.
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Painted in Romantic style it depicts the recent July Revolution that had brought the reigning monarch Louis Philippe I to power over his cousin Charles X. It features the Liberty (also identified at Marianne) leading the Paris crowds forwards.
The revolution was also represented in two paintings in The Battle of Rue de Rohan and The Battle of Porte Saint-Denis by Hippolyte Lecomte. Also on display were two portraits by Alexandre-Marie Colin of the poet Jean-Georges Farcy, killed during the storming of the Tuileries Palace.
History