Smith, Gerard William · New York, Scribner · leaf 235
ined a tastefor the antique far purer than that of David, with a passionequally strong for the reality of nature. EuGiiNE Delacroix (1798—1863), a pupil of Guorin, maybe called the first Romanticist. He reflected the new aspirationsof a time with which, moreover, his own genius was in… … School. Politics only once attracted his pencil; his attemptsin the classic sty^.e, such as the Medea, fail in beauty of form, PAINTING IN FRANCE. 199 and succeed only so far as they express human emotion. Norwas he happier in his purely religious subjects, which, as forinstance the Christ in ihe…
Painting, Spanish · Painting, French
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