The art of painting in the nineteenth century (1908)
Mach, Edmund von, 1870-1927 · Boston and London, Ginn and company · leaf 42
be theequal of Delacroix, but in choice of subjects hestands alone. His fiery temper made him selectscenes of horror, in which the most somber ofhis Spanish contemporaries might have delighted.It is impossible to judge what he would haveaccomplished if he had lived longer. Jules Elie Delaunay… … FRENCH PAINTING 19 preserve his name as that of a true artist whenmany of the Classicists and Romanticists willhave been forgotten. He was also singularlysuccessful in portraiture. With Gustave Courbet (1819-1878) there camea revolution into the world of art. He has beencalled a painter-animal, and…
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