. Art in France. FIG. 674.—PRUDHON. psyche. (Conde Museum, Chantilly.) FIG. 675.—prudhon. ZEPHYRIS CARRYING OFF PSYCHE. (The Louvre, Paris.) a number of visual sensations which classical idealism tended toeliminate; painting full of flavour, v\^here every moment the brilliantand facile brush of a son of Rubens breaks through the idealrigidity of the Davidian composition. Without Gros, the militaryepic of the Empire would not have had a painter worthy of he was something more than a mere battle-painter; like David, he put thoughtinto his vast classical batde-piecesshow us w
. Art in France. FIG. 674.—PRUDHON. psyche. (Conde Museum, Chantilly.) FIG. 675.—prudhon. ZEPHYRIS CARRYING OFF PSYCHE. (The Louvre, Paris.) a number of visual sensations which classical idealism tended toeliminate; painting full of flavour, v\^here every moment the brilliantand facile brush of a son of Rubens breaks through the idealrigidity of the Davidian composition. Without Gros, the militaryepic of the Empire would not have had a painter worthy of he was something more than a mere battle-painter; like David, he put thoughtinto his vast classical batde-piecesshow us warriors, but notsoldiers; another genrewas evolved, that of Sal-vator Rosa and of Bour-guignon, who paintedunnamed battles andcavalry skirmishes ofconsiderable spirit andinvention, in which thehind quarters of horsesdisappear in clouds ofpistol-smoke. On behalfof the king. Van derMeulen gave commissions. FIG. 676. — PRIDHU-N. JI STICK .\.\L> PURSUING CRIME. (The Louvre, Paris.) {Pholo. Neurdein.) 321 ART IN FRANCE for historical battle-scenes, where we mayadmire Louis XIV giving orders on aneminence. The realities of battle hadnever entered into art, till Gros introducedthem. True, this painter sometimes allowshimself to be carried away by the pleasureof showing movement and colour, and thefantasia of his brush very well expressesthe juria of Murats squadrons cuttingdown the flying burnooses; but in hisPestiferes de Jaffa (Fig. 668) and hisField of Eylau the artist gives us, muchmore than the violent pantomime of combat,the pity and the sadness of the conqueror,the despair and rage of the conquered, alowering sky, the smoke of conflagrations,snow and blood. War was no longermerely a picturesque theme; it excitedemotions hitherto unimagined by was full of its fever; when the eraof battles was past, the soul of his workdied out with military enthusiasm. H
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