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How much is Liberty Leading the People worth?
Liberty Leading the People is not for sale: it is held by the Musée du Louvre, Paris, so it has no market price. The closest guide is Delacroix's highest documented sale: $9.88 million for Tigre jouant avec une tortue, at Christie's New York in 2018. Prints and posters of it usually sell for $5–$250, and hand-painted copies for $100–$800.
- Artist
- Eugène Delacroix
- Date
- 1830
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Held by
- Musée du Louvre, Paris
Delacroix's record$9.88MTigre jouant avec une tortue · 2018
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About the painting
Liberty Leading the People is a painting of the Romantic era by the French artist Eugène Delacroix, commemorating the July Revolution of 1830 that toppled King Charles X. A bare-breasted "woman of the people" with a Phrygian cap personifying the concept and Goddess of Liberty, accompanied by a young boy brandishing a pistol in each hand, leads a group of various people forward over a barricade and the bodies of the fallen while holding aloft the flag of the French Revolution, the tricolour, which again became France's national flag after these events, in one hand, and brandishing a bayonetted musket with the other. The figure of Liberty is also viewed as a symbol of France and the French Republic known as Marianne. The painting is sometimes wrongly thought to depict the French Revolution of 1789.
More on the artist: the most expensive Delacroix ever sold, and where the famous ones hang.
Delacroix next to other famous artists
Each artist's highest documented sale, from the same research. Delacroix: $9.88 million for Tigre jouant avec une tortue, in 2018.
Nominal US dollars as reported at the time of sale, buyer's premium included where the source includes it.
Why it has no price
Liberty Leading the People is held by the Musée du Louvre, Paris. Works in public collections are not sold, so no one can put a market price on them. Sale records of other works by the same artist are the closest guide to what it would fetch.
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Questions
How much is Liberty Leading the People worth?
Liberty Leading the People is not for sale: it is held by the Musée du Louvre, Paris, so it has no market price. The closest guide is Delacroix's highest documented sale: $9.88 million for Tigre jouant avec une tortue, at Christie's New York in 2018. Prints and posters of it usually sell for $5–$250, and hand-painted copies for $100–$800.
How much is a print of Liberty Leading the People worth?
Most prints and posters of Liberty Leading the People sell for $5–$250, with framed ones at the top of that range, and hand-painted copies for $100–$800. They are priced as decorative pieces, not as Delacroix's work.
Is Liberty Leading the People for sale?
No. It is held by the Musée du Louvre, Paris. Works in public collections are not sold, so they have no market price.
What is Delacroix's most expensive work?
Tigre jouant avec une tortue, which sold for $9.88 million at Christie's New York in 2018. Prices are nominal US dollars as reported at the time.
Where is Liberty Leading the People?
Liberty Leading the People (1830, oil on canvas) is held by the Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Sources
- $9.88 million, 2018: en.wikipedia.org
Researched October 2026 and checked against a second source. All famous painting prices
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