. Art in France. lognas Mercury in a hussar uniform torepresent a figure rushing impetuously for^^ard. And without doingviolence to reality. Napoleons painters were able to give himthe clear-cut, beardless face of Cassar, and the laurelled brow ofan Imperator. Nor were the emotions which agitated the contemporary worldincomprehensible to a student of Plutarch who had become theofficial painter of the Convention and of the Empire. Wordsand actions readily assumed a heroic guise. David was able topass from the Oath of the Horatii to the Oath of the Tennis Courtwithout quitting the chilly heights
. Art in France. lognas Mercury in a hussar uniform torepresent a figure rushing impetuously for^^ard. And without doingviolence to reality. Napoleons painters were able to give himthe clear-cut, beardless face of Cassar, and the laurelled brow ofan Imperator. Nor were the emotions which agitated the contemporary worldincomprehensible to a student of Plutarch who had become theofficial painter of the Convention and of the Empire. Wordsand actions readily assumed a heroic guise. David was able topass from the Oath of the Horatii to the Oath of the Tennis Courtwithout quitting the chilly heights of stoicism. When, a little later, he abandonedLeonidas at the pass ofThermopylae, to followBonaparte in the pass ofMount St. Bernard, hissoul was still exalted byLacedaemonian , the greater menof the school, Gros andDavid, retained the tend-ency which made Frenchclassical art so serious;they were no mere anec- FiG. ,iRoDET. ATALA AT THE TOMB. dotists; they cndowcd each of their compositions. (The Louvre, Paris.) 315 ART IN FRANCE
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