. Art in France. KIC. 700.—TROYON. KEEDIM. FOl LIRV. (The Louvre, Paris.) 364 THE ROMANTIC PERIOD. 707.—JOLFFRUV. A YOrXG GIRL TELLING HER FIRST SECRET TO VENUS. (The Lou\Te, Paris.) like the painters, change their dramatis personae, and abandon Olympus for the misty divinities of Ossian; the antique nudities offered too many plastic resources to be sacrificed to Gothic knights or ladies. Sculptors accordingly often demanded from Greek muscles the expression of Romantic emotion. Louis XVIIIs Government merely com-missioned Bosio and Lemot to replace the figures of Henry IV, Louis XIII and
. Art in France. KIC. 700.—TROYON. KEEDIM. FOl LIRV. (The Louvre, Paris.) 364 THE ROMANTIC PERIOD. 707.—JOLFFRUV. A YOrXG GIRL TELLING HER FIRST SECRET TO VENUS. (The Lou\Te, Paris.) like the painters, change their dramatis personae, and abandon Olympus for the misty divinities of Ossian; the antique nudities offered too many plastic resources to be sacrificed to Gothic knights or ladies. Sculptors accordingly often demanded from Greek muscles the expression of Romantic emotion. Louis XVIIIs Government merely com-missioned Bosio and Lemot to replace the figures of Henry IV, Louis XIII and Louis XIV, which had been shattered during the Revolution; this work was simply restoration. The Monarchy of July had very different ambitions. The reign of Louis Philippe produced more statues than that of Louis XIV, but the Citizen King glorified the nation, not the mon-archy ; works which date from this period are the Cities of France seated round the obelisk in the Place de la Concorde, some of the Heroes in the fore-courts at Versailles, and the Women of France in the Luxembourg, a ser
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