Three places, three artists, a 75-year time span, one recurring artistic motif: depicting an entire nation through a female figure.
Eugène Delacroix, “La Liberté Guidant Le Peuple” [Liberty Leading the People], 1830.
John Gast, “American Progress,” 1872.
Abanindranath Tagore, “Bharat Matā” [Mother India], 1905.
And the legacies of all three depictions, all of which resonated widely at the time they were produced, continue to produce effects over a hundred years later, for both good and ill.
Nicolas de Zamaróczy 