Read the given passage and answer the following question. In 1848, Frederic Sorrieu, a French artist, prepared a series of four prints visualizing his dream of a world made up of ‘democratic and social republics’, as he called them. As you would recall, artists of the time of the French Revolution personified Liberty as a female figure – here you can recognize the torch of Enlightenment she bears in one hand and the charter of the Right of Man in the other. On the earth in the foreground of the image lie the shattered remains of the symbols of absolutist institutions. In Sorrieu’s utopian vision, the peoples of the world are grouped as distinct nations, identified through their flags and national costume. Leading the procession, way past the Statue of Liberty, are the United States and Switzerland, which by this time were already nation-states. France, identifiable by the revolutionary tricolor, has just reached the statue. She is followed by the people of Germany, bearing the black, red, and gold flags Interestingly, at the time, the German people did not yet exist as a united nation- the flag they carry is an expression of liberal hopes in 1848 to unify the numerous German-speaking principalities into a nation-state under a democratic constitution.

What was the theme of the painting made by Frederic Sorrieu?