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Liberty Leading the People (La Liberte guidant le peuple) is a painting by Eugene Delacroix commemorating the Paris Revolt of 1830 in the centre of Paris...Liberty leads the people forward over the bodies of the fallen, holding the tricolore flag of the French Revolution in one hand and brandishing a bayonetted musket with the other...Delacroix painted his work in the autumn of 1830... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Leading_the_People... This piece is on display at the Louvre in Paris.
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