Muther, Richard, 1860-1909 · London : J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton · leaf 251
his historicalpictures, have a stormy exposition. In David all is calculation ; in Gros,lire. Almost alone among his contemporaries, he had studied Rubens,and like liim gave colour the place due to it. At times there is in hispictures a natural ffesh-colour and an animation which make this… … PRUDHOX. THE VIRGIN. THE FORERUNNERS OF ROMANTICISM IN FRANCE 213 more timidly : Man is not a statuo—not made of maibl(>, but of fleshand bone. But as with Prudhou, so with Gros. This man, of exaggerated nervous-ness, was lacking in that capacity for persistence which belongs to a strongwill…
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