Leading the People.
A dark-skinned marauder looks threatening in the background while the title woman stands on broken pillars in his Greece Expiring on the Ruins of Missolonghi. This artist's 1832 journeys to Africa led to The Women of Algiers in Their Apartment and The Sultan of Morocco. Gericault (ZHER-i-coe) inspired his painting of floating dead bodies surrounding two men in red and white, The Barque of Dante. A king surveys the destruction of his harem from an enormous bed in this man's Byron-inspired work The Death of Sardanapalus. Famous for such anti-Turkish paintings as The Massacre at Chios, this is, for 10 points, what French Romantic who painted a bare-breasted woman holding the tricolor flag in his Liberty Leading the People.
A dark-skinned marauder looks threatening in the background while the title woman stands on broken pillars in his Greece Expiring on the Ruins of Missolonghi.
Eugene {Delacroix}