The victorious march is a commemorative edition celebrating Paris Saint-Germain Football Club’s (PSG) victory in the 2025 UEFA Champions League. To mark this historic occasion, Barontini was commissioned to create a ceremonial fanion, gifted on the night of the game to the opposing team, Inter Milan. Conceived as both a poetic and unifying gesture, the work celebrates a spirit of solidarity, and cultural legacy tied to the club and the city of Paris.

The project continues Barontini’s engagement with large-scale public interventions, following works such as We Could Be Heroes at the Panthéon and Dans la nuit, le peuple danse at the Palais de Tokyo. Drawing on PSG’s visual identity and histories of collective struggle, the artist transforms the symbol of the flag into an emblem of shared imagination and victory.

Following PSG’s triumph, the image was transformed into a limited-edition color lithograph, produced in 75 signed and numbered copies. At its center, the image features two sculptural, Apollonian figures proudly bearing the colors and emblems of Paris and its club: blue, white, red, and the fleur-de-lis. These figures are adorned with architectural elements from the Parc des Princes—PSG’s home stadium—reimagined as armor and helmets. The stadium’s iconic arches rest atop their heads, recalling both the silhouette of the UEFA Champions League trophy and the helmet of Vercingetorix, the Gallic chieftain who resisted Roman conquest. The bust of the figure on the right draws from the Borghese Gladiator, a celebrated work from the Louvre’s antiquities collection, further anchoring the work in Parisian iconography.

Their posture directly references Eugène Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People, with an echo of Marianne’s raised tricolore. In the distance, the Eiffel Tower stands as a symbol of the city and its triumph. The background is drawn from Barontini’s original painting, rendered in ink and airbrush before being photographed. The scene captures a defiant, celebratory march—an imagined procession echoing through the streets of Paris and across the Champs-Élysées.