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Realistic acrylic painting of painter Eugene Delacroix featuring his most famous painting The Freedom Leads the People, all painted by the Dutch fine artist Paul Meijering - the original painting is 90 x 120 cm

The Freedom Leads the People (French: La Liberté guidant le peuple) is a painting by French painter Eugene Delacroix. It depicts Liberty as Marianne, the national symbol of France, leading the revolutionaries at the July Revolution of 1830. It is painted with oil paint. Measuring 260 by 325 centimetres, the canvas is one of the best-known and most imitated paintings in the history of French painting. The scene shows the well-known allegory of freedom: the woman (harking back to older representation methods for allegories) with her upper body bared (nudity as a sign of vulnerability - and thus courage - in contrast to the horror that is taking place). The woman wears a Phrygian hat referring to freedom. To her right, a little boy, referring to youth, is seen fearlessly...

For almost 33 years now, Paul Meijering has been active with the paint brushes. As a 17- year old inspired youngster he joined the Academy of Arts in Enschede (Holland) in order to receive a native training in drawing- and painting technique. At that time (1980) the tendency of the abstract was running riot, and to his dismay and disappointment Paul found that the trade of the ancient masters was merely 'old hat', the realistic art being disregarded and looked down upon. After two years of useless botchery, there was only one conclusion to draw: "get autodidact, be a self-taught person!" Paul then left the academy to work for a living, but at the back of his mind there always loomed the passion of his life: to paint. At his spare time...