Génie du christianisme, ou beautés de la religion chrétienne
Chateaubriand's apologia for Christian faith and its influence on art, literature and morals, issued at Lyon and Paris in 1809 for a French reading public after the Revolution. Copperplate engravings mix allegory — Religion enthroned on clouds with cross and lyre above scholars and painters — with narrative scenes of deathbed last rites and figures gathering fruit beneath a broadly foliated tree, offering neoclassical drapery, stipple-shaded skies and interiors lit by a single window.
