. Art in France. FIG. 72Q.— ON MOUNT SAINT-BERNARD. (Windsor ART IN FRANCE. >; iiu. ..n Ki<; i<t iHi. OF CLISE. (Conde Museum. Chantilly.) Nearly all the Frenchpainters took part in theundertaking, and its pic-tures are by no means allmasterDieces. Thev arelarge decorations in whichthe accessories and the cos-tumes till the stage, but tooohen the artist was notenough interested in hissubject to put any feelinginto it, or not enough of apainter to give it any pic-turesqueness. \et it is to this enterprise that we owe two of Dela-croixs gre
. Art in France. FIG. 72Q.— ON MOUNT SAINT-BERNARD. (Windsor ART IN FRANCE. >; iiu. ..n Ki<; i<t iHi. OF CLISE. (Conde Museum. Chantilly.) Nearly all the Frenchpainters took part in theundertaking, and its pic-tures are by no means allmasterDieces. Thev arelarge decorations in whichthe accessories and the cos-tumes till the stage, but tooohen the artist was notenough interested in hissubject to put any feelinginto it, or not enough of apainter to give it any pic-turesqueness. \et it is to this enterprise that we owe two of Dela-croixs great works, the Battle of Taillebourg and the Crusaders atConstantinople, the one seething with fury, the other full of a kindof grandiose melancholy (Figs. 696, 698). Horace Vernet (1789-1863), a facile painter and skilful illus-trator, was among the most gifted of these artistic chroniclers. Hisinnumerable military pictures are like the spirited tale of a trooper,relating heroic actions and camp adventures with the same simpli-city and good humour (Fig. 726). But Paul Delaroche (1797-1856) is the m
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