. Art in France. Neither had authority enoughto impose Davids austere ideal upon rebellious youth. Gerard wasmerely a Court portrait-painter, and Gros, a premature wreck, wasbewailing the sins of his youth. Girodet had already disquietedDavid by his Ossianism; but if he felt differently from his master, 326 THE ROiMANTIC PERIOD. FIG. 687. HEIM. CHARLES X PRESENTING THE AWARDS AT THE SALOM OF 1823. (The Louvre, Paris.) he painted like him; andartists are lenient to di-vergencies of , however, technicalinnovations began to ap-pear, they could not beregarded as venial audaci-ties
. Art in France. Neither had authority enoughto impose Davids austere ideal upon rebellious youth. Gerard wasmerely a Court portrait-painter, and Gros, a premature wreck, wasbewailing the sins of his youth. Girodet had already disquietedDavid by his Ossianism; but if he felt differently from his master, 326 THE ROiMANTIC PERIOD. FIG. 687. HEIM. CHARLES X PRESENTING THE AWARDS AT THE SALOM OF 1823. (The Louvre, Paris.) he painted like him; andartists are lenient to di-vergencies of , however, technicalinnovations began to ap-pear, they could not beregarded as venial audaci-ties ; they menaced art inIts fundamental institution,that of teaching. It was the museum ofthe Louvre, rich in themasterpieces of Flandersand Italy until the year1815, which revealed the inadequacy of the Davidian doctrine tothe younger artists. Passing from the dismal studio in which arigid model was posed upon a plank, to the Museum, the pupil ofDavid or Guerin noted the expressive power of naturahsm in thehands of Caravaggio or Rubens. Gericaults vigorous painting(I 791-1824) ought to have warned the Davidians that their sereneidealism could not satisfy a generation which had grown up in thefever of the Revolution and the Empire. True, he died too youngnot to leave some doubt as to the significance of his work and the val
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