Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Liberty Leading the People2

Liberty Leading the People (2nd nomination)

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Original - Liberty Leading the People (French: La Liberté guidant le peuple) is a painting by Eugène Delacroix commemorating the July Revolution of 1830, which toppled Charles X. A woman personifying Liberty leads the people forward over the bodies of the fallen, holding the tricolore flag of the French Revolution in one hand and brandishing a bayonetted musket with the other. This is perhaps Delacroix's best-known painting, having carved its own niche in popular culture.

Alternate

Reason

The first nomination wasn't promoted due to lack of votes, but it is a high quality picture with lots of EV, not to mention that it was a featured picure on Wikimedia Commons and Turkish Wikipedia.

Articles in which this image appears

Liberty Leading the People, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, History of painting, Romanticism, and much more.

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings

Creator

Eugène Delacroix

• Support as nominator --Secret Saturdays (talk to me)^{what's new?} 17:46, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
• Oppose Original, Support Alternate. The original has been retouched to remove the crease, which is part of the canvas, as of official Louvre scan/photo shows. It also has visible JPEG artifacts. Full disclosure: I'm the original nominator. NauticaShades 18:05, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
• Comment: Was it not agreed that this was cropped far too closely? J Milburn (talk) 18:08, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
  • Both the Louvre and Google seem to indicate that this is the correct composition. NauticaShades 18:17, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
  • Actual picture. Nergaal (talk) 19:39, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
• Support alt a faithful and accurate scan of a historic and famous painting. Resolution is reasonable, although not stellar. Purpy Pupple (talk) 01:43, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
• Comment I'm not entirely sold on this resolution: there's a limited amount of detail and given the size of the canvas and quality of our other FPs, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect more here. Cowtowner (talk) 23:14, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Jujutacular ^talk 19:27, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

• Support <5 Jujutacular ^talk 19:27, 18 January 2011 (UTC)