Louvre employees rehung Eugene Delacroix’s 1830 oil painting Liberty Leading the People on Thursday after a six-month restoration

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1. Every bit as gorgeous as the first time you see it.

2. Stunning painting

3. While often mistakenly believed to represent the French Revolution of 1789, it actually represents the French Revolution of 1830, not to be mistaken with the French Revolution of 1848.

   Some people just love their trilogies.

4. The contrast between the disappointment that I felt while seeing “the best painting in History” and the awe that I felt by experiencing Delacroix’s masterpiece soon after is the thing that I remember the most from my visit to the Louvre.

   It is definitely one of my favourite paintings.

5. Beautiful. I learned, not too long ago, that liberty leading the people might have been painted with paints made out of people. [mummy brown](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/mummy-art-painting-delacroix-pigment-ancient-Egypt)

6. I was introduced to this when I took a course at university. I understood little, but I bought a print and put it up in the apartment I shared. This is wonderful.