Muther, Richard, 1860-1909 · London : J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton · leaf 138
THE CLASSICAL REACTION IN FRANCE 103 he was to go later. His Oath of the Horatii and his Brutus,both painted in Rome in 1784, proclaimed his programme. The little, rosy-loves, the doves of Venus, and all the charming frivolity and gallantry of rococo, … MADAME RtC.\MIER. received their final dismissal, and rough men walked in their stead. Hebroke his staff over all that he had previously venerated, and declared loudlythat he had sinned when in his youth he had believed in the flowery paletteof rococo, and completed in tender tones those ceiling…
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