. Art in France. FIG. BV I Palais des Beaux-Arts de la \illede Pans.) 391 ART IN FRANCE. FIG. 819.— STONEWARE. (Photo. Art el Decoration.) domination of the past. Their architectureand furniture do not have to efface thememory of such admirable works as, forinstance, a hotel or a sofa of the period ofLouis XVI. France of the Ancien Re-gime oudives itself in its art. It imposesits aristocratic furniture on our contempo-rary bourgeoisie. The past with us is soadmirable and so varied that it prevents usfrom doing justice to the present. The fin
. Art in France. FIG. BV I Palais des Beaux-Arts de la \illede Pans.) 391 ART IN FRANCE. FIG. 819.— STONEWARE. (Photo. Art el Decoration.) domination of the past. Their architectureand furniture do not have to efface thememory of such admirable works as, forinstance, a hotel or a sofa of the period ofLouis XVI. France of the Ancien Re-gime oudives itself in its art. It imposesits aristocratic furniture on our contempo-rary bourgeoisie. The past with us is soadmirable and so varied that it prevents usfrom doing justice to the present. The fine shades of contemporary sensi-bility are revealed more especially in paint-ing. It is here that the naturalistic tendencieswhich dominated the second half of the nine-teenth centurv are most apparent. Aboutthe year 1850 the third artistic revolutionachieved in the name of truth within less than a hundred years tookplace. David had dethroned Boucher, and was dethroned byIngres. Now Courbet (1819-1877) rose in revolt against Ingresand Delacroix. His naturalism was a new thing in France. Lntilthen French painters had, a
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