Eugene Delacroix is a leader of the Romantic school in French painting. Liberty Leading the People is a painting (oil on canvas) by Eugène Delacroix . The subject of Eugène Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People is the July Revolution of 1830 in France. The painting presents a woman personifying the conceptof Liberty. She leads the people forward over a barricade and she is holding the flag of the French Revolution – the tricolour flag.