. Art in France. h art for theking, Le Brun, likeothers, had worked forthe Church and for finance; he had painted saintetes (sacred subjects) andmythologies. His two idols were Raphael and Poussin. Heimitated the noble design and, in particular, the emphatic andanimated movement of Raphael in the Battle of Constantine;in Poussin, whom he had known in Rome, he especially admiredhis skill in enshrining a moral drama in a picturesque professor in him preferred Poussin, whose reasoned artappears so rich in lucid precepts; left to himself, he would, nodoubt, have produced scenes of
. Art in France. h art for theking, Le Brun, likeothers, had worked forthe Church and for finance; he had painted saintetes (sacred subjects) andmythologies. His two idols were Raphael and Poussin. Heimitated the noble design and, in particular, the emphatic andanimated movement of Raphael in the Battle of Constantine;in Poussin, whom he had known in Rome, he especially admiredhis skill in enshrining a moral drama in a picturesque professor in him preferred Poussin, whose reasoned artappears so rich in lucid precepts; left to himself, he would, nodoubt, have produced scenes of ancient tragedy, with a great dealof psychology and archaeology; but he had a facile brush, and circumstances made him adecorator. After a periodof service with Fouquet,he passed into that of theking. In his academicdiscourses, he declaredthat paintingshouldappealto the intelligence, whileat the Louvre, the Gobe-lins and Versailles, hewas obliged to appeal tothe eye. Le Bruns large com-positions are unattractive,. FIG. 454.—GlILLAUME COUSTOr. THK KHuNE. (Hotel de Villa, Lyons.) 219 ART IN FRANCE
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