Examine the image (François Rude, La Marseillaise, 1833-6) and analyse how it depicts movement

La Marseillaise by François Rude depicts a winged figure of victory above a group of soldiers. Rude intended to represent a moment from the French Revolution, and had to choose one moment to convey the maximum impression of the revolution and to give the biggest visual impact. Rude creates two axes in the sculpture - a horizontal axis divides the soldiers from the victory figure above and a vertical axis which leads from the head of the victory downwards between the soldiers.Rude created a  feeling of movement rotating around the vertical axis by overlapping the bodies in the lower register to form a semicircle with soldiers moving from left to right, from background to foreground and back again. This creates the impression that the sculpture is in the round, rather than a relief. The action unfolds in front of a background and the viewer has to stand in a specific place to see it - even though viewer does not move around sculpture they are given the illusion of a sculpture in the round because the direction of the sculpture rotates from left to right. A dynamism is brought to the composition with the soldier at the very front who stands in the same pose as the victory but in reverse, creating a pause in the flow of movement.