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The history of modern painting (1907)

Muther, Richard, 1860-1909 · London : J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton · leaf 260

An illustration from The history of modern painting, 1907, leaf 260
ed on the stage,correct, well dressed, gloved, close shaven, with their neat ties and shirt collars,the representatives of the old generation, whose blameless conduct had raisedthem to office and place. And in contrast to them, in the pit were crowdedtogether the young men, the Jeune France, as… … /■• THEODORE g£rICAULT. uniform was the red waistcoatintroduced by Theophile Gautier— not the red chosen for theirsymbol by the men of the Revol-ution, but the scarlet-red whichrepresented the hatred felt by theseenthusiastic young men for allthat was grey and dull, and theirpreference for all that…

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