. Art in France. nded. Until then horses ran in picturesby prancing like stone figures on a pedestal. Since then paintershave caught from instantaneous photography more than one aspectamong the innumerable positions of a horse who gathers and flingshimself in galloping, which the eye had not been able to catch,and they have given up the flying gallop of Gericault. Still, thatis a real position of horses who gallop ventre-a-terre over the turfof the race-course (Fig. 697). Gericault died before Romanti-cism had declared war against Classicism, and his work, still unde-cided when it was interrup
. Art in France. nded. Until then horses ran in picturesby prancing like stone figures on a pedestal. Since then paintershave caught from instantaneous photography more than one aspectamong the innumerable positions of a horse who gathers and flingshimself in galloping, which the eye had not been able to catch,and they have given up the flying gallop of Gericault. Still, thatis a real position of horses who gallop ventre-a-terre over the turfof the race-course (Fig. 697). Gericault died before Romanti-cism had declared war against Classicism, and his work, still unde-cided when it was interrupted for ever, hardlv allows us to judgewhich side he would havetaken in the batde. In the Salon of 1822,a young friend of Geri-caults, Eugene Delacroix(1798-1863), exhibiteda scene from the DivineComedy. But there wasnothing in this livid visionof Virgil and Dante inHell very surprising to apublic familiar with Cai a-vaggio, and the Raft ofthe Medusa. It was notuntil two years later, be-fore the Massacre of Scio,. ».;. — DELACROIX. \TRGI1. ANDDANTE IN HELL. (The Louvre, Paris.) 329 ART IN FRANCE
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