. Art in France. mbs devoid of splendour lurk in their dark rugged images lack neither vigour nor sincerity, and it is easyto forgive those we can respect for making no attempt to dazzle,nor even to please. In the Place Royale and in the mansions of the Marais, again, wecan evoke the art-lovmg burgesses of the day. Never were paintersand sculptors more constantly employed than those of this apparendyunproductive period. They went from one great house to another,occupied for years on the decoration of a gallery. When we readtheir biographies, it even seems as if society were askin
. Art in France. mbs devoid of splendour lurk in their dark rugged images lack neither vigour nor sincerity, and it is easyto forgive those we can respect for making no attempt to dazzle,nor even to please. In the Place Royale and in the mansions of the Marais, again, wecan evoke the art-lovmg burgesses of the day. Never were paintersand sculptors more constantly employed than those of this apparendyunproductive period. They went from one great house to another,occupied for years on the decoration of a gallery. When we readtheir biographies, it even seems as if society were asking of art morethan art could yet give: the culture of luxury, admiration for theantique, and refinement oftaste were even more pro-nounced among amateursthan among this time forth wesee Parisian society direct-ing and accelerating themovement of art. Paris assumed that ex-traordinary preponderanceof intellectual life whichcontributed so greatly tothe unification of Frenchart. It concentrated the. FIG. 441.—claidf: PEN AND INK DRAWING. (The Louvre, Paris.) 21 p2 ART IN FRANCE
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