Art, literature & history
Liberty
1848–49
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Medium
- black chalk and pastel
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 47.2 x 31.7 cm (18 9/16 x 12 1/2 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2008.395
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jean-François Millet. Liberty. The Cleveland Museum of Art. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art
About this artwork
Liberty — Jean-François Millet. 1848–49.
Medium: black chalk and pastel. Dimensions: Sheet: 47.2 x 31.7 cm (18 9/16 x 12 1/2 in.).
Collection record: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Liberty relates to Jean-François Millet's entrance into the 1848 competition for an official painted figure representing the second French Republic. Millet did not win the competition and his painted Republic no longer exists, but this representation of a related concept—liberty—was inspired by his contest participation. He also drew allegories of the other two fundamental concepts in French Republicanism: equality and fraternity.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.