Delacroix's unusual choice of scenes in these murals bewildered critics for over a century.
Delacroix
Bare-breasted with a bayonet? Liberty leads a revolution that won’t be televised but will be seen in the Paris Salon.
Eugène Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People
Delacroix’s scene of Greek survivors is anything but heroic and offers no relief to the suffering depicted.
Eugène Delacroix, Scene of the Massacre at ...
Delacroix paints an anti-hero who presides over a chaotic, violent scene of corruption and luxury.