. A short history of art . phudhon louvre THE ABDUCTIOX OF PSYCHE A charmingly sentimentalised use of the painting of the Greek ^3< s< CLASSICAL REVIVAL IN FRANCE 495 fined elegance of drawing and a sentiment sometimes poign-ant, elsewhere dreamily poetic. One may see an example ofthe former in his Justice Pursuing Crime, and of the latterin his Psyche Borne by Zephyrus, both of which are in theLouvre. They are characterised, not by clear definition ofform, as in the strictly Classical pictures, but by an elabo-rate scheme of light and shade, which renders the figures misty and ph
. A short history of art . phudhon louvre THE ABDUCTIOX OF PSYCHE A charmingly sentimentalised use of the painting of the Greek ^3< s< CLASSICAL REVIVAL IN FRANCE 495 fined elegance of drawing and a sentiment sometimes poign-ant, elsewhere dreamily poetic. One may see an example ofthe former in his Justice Pursuing Crime, and of the latterin his Psyche Borne by Zephyrus, both of which are in theLouvre. They are characterised, not by clear definition ofform, as in the strictly Classical pictures, but by an elabo-rate scheme of light and shade, which renders the figures misty and phantomlike. Gros (1771-1835) Another important figure of the period was Baron AntoineJean Gros. A pupil of David, he was an artist of greatoriginality, but of little self-confidence. Thus his career wasdivided between works in which he exhibited his own personal-ity, and those in which he, unfortunately, allowed himself tobe biassed by devotion to his masters ideals. The former areexemplified in the paintings which he executed as the resultof his accompanying Napoleon, then General Bonaparte, inthe campaigns of the French army in
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