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Iconic French painting to make comeback in true colours

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A restoration artist works on the restoration of the painting 'Liberty Leading The People' (1830) by French artist Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863), at a laboratory inside the Louvre Museum in Paris. Photo: AFP

A world-famous painting of a bare-chested woman leading French revolutionaries revealed its true colours this week after restorers cleansed it from decades of varnish and grime.

The public can now admire Eugene Delacroix's Liberty Leading The People in its full glory at the Louvre museum after it returned to the spotlight on Thursday.

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