. Eugène Delacroix. 1^ ^J iiferoix^- Hamlet, Get thee to a nunnery. Savilet, act iii. sc. i. {Lithograpli). si EUGEO^E DELJCTipIX His literary sympathies were all with the greatclassics of the past. Racine seemed to himinfinitely greater than Hugo, Balzac andMusset, and though he was on terms of respect-ful friendship with George Sand, it was ratheras a friend and personality that he admiredher than as a writer. His predilection forthe soberer and more restrained forms of artwas strongly marked in music also. Berliozhe condemned unsparingly. And even whilehe admits Beethovens supreme genius,
. Eugène Delacroix. 1^ ^J iiferoix^- Hamlet, Get thee to a nunnery. Savilet, act iii. sc. i. {Lithograpli). si EUGEO^E DELJCTipIX His literary sympathies were all with the greatclassics of the past. Racine seemed to himinfinitely greater than Hugo, Balzac andMusset, and though he was on terms of respect-ful friendship with George Sand, it was ratheras a friend and personality that he admiredher than as a writer. His predilection forthe soberer and more restrained forms of artwas strongly marked in music also. Berliozhe condemned unsparingly. And even whilehe admits Beethovens supreme genius, we feelthat he remains unmoved and uncomprehend-ing, and that all his instinctive sympathy andaffection go to Gltlck and Mozart. These arethe tastes that made him object so stronglyto being labelled as a Romantic, and they goto prove that though Delacroix was indeedthe exponent of the spirit of his age, and was/swayed by its strongest currents, yet the deepest |instincts of his soul inclined towards order,discipline and restraint. His extraordinary^,and never-failing preoccupation with thetechnical side
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