. Art in France. xtures with-out reflections, the flesh without life; a serene elegance and an icypurity mark the work. Although Ingres thus unfolded all the re-sources of his marvellous drawing, although he recognised thatrealism in colour and effects of relief were to be avoided, he neverworked out his process to its logical conclusion, by giving the deli-cate pallor of fresco to his general tone. His pupils continued tocolour without charm elegant or merely correct silhouettes, untilthe day when Puvis de Chavannes completed this beauty of lineby the poetry of a natural illumination, and, li
. Art in France. xtures with-out reflections, the flesh without life; a serene elegance and an icypurity mark the work. Although Ingres thus unfolded all the re-sources of his marvellous drawing, although he recognised thatrealism in colour and effects of relief were to be avoided, he neverworked out his process to its logical conclusion, by giving the deli-cate pallor of fresco to his general tone. His pupils continued tocolour without charm elegant or merely correct silhouettes, untilthe day when Puvis de Chavannes completed this beauty of lineby the poetry of a natural illumination, and, like Poussin before him, set rhythmic figuresin a real landscape. Ingres lived to see hisdecorative style continuedbv his pupils, Amaury,Duval, Mottez, and aboveall. Hippolvte Flandrin(1809-1864). The nu-merous religious worksexecuted under the Mon-archy of July and theSecond Empire repeat theApotheosis of faults of this mannerbecome very apparent inthe disciples; coldness isnot the least of these; in 345. Fin. 725. -HOR.^CE VERNET. MARSHAL MONCEVAT THE BARRICADE. (The Louvre, Paris.)(Photo. Neurdein.) ART IN FRANCE
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