{"id":7451,"date":"2023-09-27T01:45:58","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T01:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thucdoan.com\/?p=7451"},"modified":"2023-09-27T01:51:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T01:51:15","slug":"7451","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thucdoan.com\/?p=7451","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t\t\t\t\"\"\n\tEug\u00e8ne Delacroix (France, 1798-1863)
\nLa Libert\u00e9 guidant le peuple (Liberty Leading the People)
\noil on canvas
\n260 \u00d7 325 cm. (102.4 \u00d7 128.0 in.)
\npainted in 1830\n

Collection of Louvre Museum, Paris, France<\/p>\n\t

Eug\u00e8ne Delacroix’s “Liberty Guiding the People” leaves the Louvre for restoration<\/p>\n\t

In 2019, the Paris museum launched a major restoration campaign for large 19th\u1d49 century formats. The painting, produced in 1830, will return to the Louvre in spring 2024.<\/p>\n“Liberty Guiding the People”, by Eug\u00e8ne Delacroix, at the Mus\u00e9e du Louvre.
\nOne of the Louvre’s most emblematic works. On Wednesday, September 20, Delacroix’s masterpiece La Libert\u00e9 guidant le peuple (Liberty Guiding the People) left its place in one of the Paris museum’s large red halls for restoration. The painting of the topless woman waving the French flag on a barricade in the midst of insurgents in the heart of Paris will undergo restoration until spring 2024, and will be temporarily replaced by the painting just opposite it, Les Femmes souliotes, by Ary Scheffer, dated 1827.\n

Liberty Guiding the People was painted by Delacroix (1798-1863) in 1830, the year of the fall of King Charles X and the accession of Louis-Philippe I to the throne. An allegorical work inspired by the Trois Glorieuses revolution in France, this large-format oil on canvas (3.25 m x 2.60 m) is usually exhibited alongside La Prise de Constantinople par les crois\u00e9s and La Mort de Sardanapale, Delacroix’s two largest paintings. The latter has itself been undergoing restoration for the past ten months, and should be back on display on September 27, according to the Mus\u00e9e du Louvre.<\/p>\n

The restoration of La Libert\u00e9 guidant le peuple was “prepared at length in advance by X-rays and analyses” of the canvas, and is “part of a major restoration campaign launched in 2019 for large 19th-century formats”, S\u00e9bastien Allard, director of the Louvre’s Department of Paintings, told Agence France-Presse. To restore the painting’s brilliance, “the oxidized varnish, which has turned yellow and alters the blue-white-red chromatic range of La Libert\u00e9, must be removed using solvents”, he added.<\/p>\n

Since 2015, the Mus\u00e9e du Louvre has carried out over two hundred restorations, some of them major. La Belle Ferronni\u00e8re, by Leonardo da Vinci (2015), La M\u00e8re infortun\u00e9e, by Constance Mayer-Lamartini\u00e8re (2022), Les Femmes d’Alger (2022) and Sc\u00e8nes des massacres de Scio (2020), by Eug\u00e8ne Delacroix, La V\u00e9nus du Pardo, by Titian (2016), and L’Inspiration du po\u00e8te, by Nicolas Poussin (2019) have also been restored.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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