Bartholdi and Laboulaye had to consider how best
to depict American liberty.
Bartholdi and Laboulaye considered how best to express
the idea of American what?
Bartholdi and Laboulaye considered how best to express
the idea of American liberty.
The only females granted access were Bartholdi''s wife and de Lesseps''s granddaughter;
Bartholdi and De Laboulaye considered how best
to express the idea of American liberty.
Laboulaye had no sympathy for revolution, and so Bartholdi''s figure would be fully dressed
in flowing robes.
This was first discovered in 1876, when Bartholdi invited French Senator Jules Bozerian to his box at the opera.
However, Bartholdi and Laboulaye avoided an image of revolutionary liberty
such as that depicted in Eugène Delacroix''s famed Liberty Leading the People(1830).
Instead of the impression of violence in the Delacroix work, Bartholdi wished to give the statue a peaceful appearance and chose a torch,
representing progress, for the figure to hold.