. The table book of art; a history of art in all countries and ages . uch success. Yien said, I have only half opened the door; it is M. David who will throw itwide open. Yien, the regenerator of painting in France, died at Paris in 1809. Louis David was born in Paris, in 1748. He was reared under the guardianshipof an uncle who was an architect, and who destined the lad for the same profession,but in the meantime he attracted the notice of the court painter of the day, and was,at his request, placed in his studio, and thence transferred to the studio of a moreregular teacher of painting. Loui
. The table book of art; a history of art in all countries and ages . uch success. Yien said, I have only half opened the door; it is M. David who will throw itwide open. Yien, the regenerator of painting in France, died at Paris in 1809. Louis David was born in Paris, in 1748. He was reared under the guardianshipof an uncle who was an architect, and who destined the lad for the same profession,but in the meantime he attracted the notice of the court painter of the day, and was,at his request, placed in his studio, and thence transferred to the studio of a moreregular teacher of painting. Louis David was eccentric always, and his mind seemedto share in a degree the distortion of his person, for the painter was mis-shapen inbody. Because he had tried repeatedly and failed, in a great measure because of hisown scorn for rules, to get the nighest honours from the Academy, David, in a frenzy,threatened to starve himself to death. After his mad and bad project had been frus-trated, and he had gained the prize he had coveted, he started with his master fori?4. I DA VID. 155 Rome, and remained ardently studying the antique in Italy, during five years, in thecourse of which he painted the Plague of St. Rock. On his return to France his stylepresented an entire change, from that which had been marked by the flimsy pretti-ness of Watteau and his followers. Not only so, the severe and spasmodic classicismwhich David re-introduced has always held, whether in painting, literature, or politics,for the impressible French nation, a peculiar charm, with which other styles andtones of thought, romantic and realistic, have constantly to renew their , on his return to the stern simplicity of ancient art, was welcomed with openarms; he was made a member of the Academy, and lodged in the Louvre, and whenhe went to Italy a second time, after his marriage, and returned with his picture ofthe Horatii, in what proved the popular enthusiasm, Louis XVI., by a subtle coinci-dence,
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