As this painting's artist wrote to his brother, since he didn't "fight for my country," he chose the subject of a barricade, over which a boy carrying pistols leaps.
This painting was originally purchased to be hung in the Luxembourg Palace, but it was later "hidden in an attic" due to its provocative content according to Champfleury. Theories that one figure in this painting is a self-portrait are generally discredited in favor of theories that the model was engraver Frédéric Villot or director Étienne Arago. A figure at the left of this painting wearing a white sash raises an (*) infantry saber. As this painting's artist wrote to his brother, since he didn't "fight for my country," he chose the subject of a barricade, over which a boy carrying pistols leaps. A musket is in the left hand of this painting's central figure, whose yellow dress has slipped to bare her breasts. For 10 points, name this painting by Eugene Delacroix in which feminized freedom raises the tricoleur.
This painting was originally purchased to be hung in the Luxembourg Palace, but it was later "hidden in an attic" due to its provocative content according to Champfleury.
Liberty Leading the People [or La Liberté guidant le peuple]