. Thorvaldsen :his life and works : illustrated by two reproductions from steel engravings by F. Gaillard, and thirty-five of the master's compositions, drawn by F. Gaillard and engraved on wood by Carbonneau . ^, andthe North, the influence of the French school was 184 WOBKS OF THOBVALDSEJST. Everywhere in these countries, in churches, palaces, castles,we meet either with immense paintings in the florid style ofLebrun, or with statues which recall, b}^ their ambitious ele-gance, the manner of the Coustous. To Lebrun succeeded Mignard ; and after him came Wat-teau, Boucher, the pain
. Thorvaldsen :his life and works : illustrated by two reproductions from steel engravings by F. Gaillard, and thirty-five of the master's compositions, drawn by F. Gaillard and engraved on wood by Carbonneau . ^, andthe North, the influence of the French school was 184 WOBKS OF THOBVALDSEJST. Everywhere in these countries, in churches, palaces, castles,we meet either with immense paintings in the florid style ofLebrun, or with statues which recall, b}^ their ambitious ele-gance, the manner of the Coustous. To Lebrun succeeded Mignard ; and after him came Wat-teau, Boucher, the painters of fetes cliampetres; Lancret,Pater, the sculptor Clodion, and many others. In sculpture,as in painting, grace, as the chief end in view, came to besubstituted for the grand style of the age of Louis XIV,with its conventional dignity, its imposing and sometimesexaggerated splendors. A new style, full of mannerisms andelegant artifices, was now the fashion, — a stj^le alread}^ veryfar removed from the point of departure of the French school,but which, being in perfect harmony with the thought andtaste of the period, wielded an influence felt ever3wherethroughout Europe. In the North, from the reign of Louis XIV, these changescan be even more distinctly traced tha
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