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Delacroix’s "Liberty Leading the People" Vandalized and Restored One Day Later

Delacroix Vandal
Delacroix's "Liberty Leading the People" (1830) at the
Le Louvre-Lens.

Eugene Delacroix's masterwork, "Liberty Leading the People" (1830), was defaced on February 7th at the Le Louvre Lens, a satellite museum of the Louvre located in Northern France.  According to reports, a 28-year-old woman used a permanent marker to write "AE911" in the lower right hand side of the painting.

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