Smith, Gerard William · New York, Scribner · leaf 243
ehend it; Delaroche, onthe contrary, clings to the real and the familiar, and by lavishuse of the resources of detail and arrangement seeks to beguileour attention in order that he may seem to fill our imagination.This is the utmost that can be said of his most ambitiousachievement, the Hemicycle… … PAINTING IN FRANCE. 207 his portraits, which are always full of character, and above allhis latest works. The death of his wife in 1845 seemed totouch a new spring in his genius, and it was under the influenceof this loss that he painted his widely-known Christian Martyr^and such sacred pictures as…
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