. Art in France. FIG 505.—pii;allk. idmbdharcoirt. 11 MAUSH \I ART IN FRANCE. FIG. 500.—()NKT. PYGMALION AND THE STATLE. FROM THE SfiVRES GROUP. sympathy with his age; and whenhe exhibited a Cupid cutting himselfa bow out of the club of Hercules,his contemporaries wondered that hehad preferred the slender, elastic graceof adolescence to the soft plumpnessof the Cupid dear to the painters ofthe day (Fig. 592). This cold ad-mirer of the ancients linked the periodof Le Brun to that of David, passinga little above the heads of his con-temporaries. The younger generation, that ofPigalle (1714
. Art in France. FIG 505.—pii;allk. idmbdharcoirt. 11 MAUSH \I ART IN FRANCE. FIG. 500.—()NKT. PYGMALION AND THE STATLE. FROM THE SfiVRES GROUP. sympathy with his age; and whenhe exhibited a Cupid cutting himselfa bow out of the club of Hercules,his contemporaries wondered that hehad preferred the slender, elastic graceof adolescence to the soft plumpnessof the Cupid dear to the painters ofthe day (Fig. 592). This cold ad-mirer of the ancients linked the periodof Le Brun to that of David, passinga little above the heads of his con-temporaries. The younger generation, that ofPigalle (1714-1/85) and Falconet(1716-1791), was more thoroughthan the Adams and less cold thanBouchardon. They showed admi-rable skill in depicting alert figures incharming attitudes of arrested move-ment. Pigalles Mercury stops tofasten his sandal with all the lightness of a body ready to boundforward and used to flying. Graceful and brilliant as was his art,Pigalle did not shrink from such monumental tasks as the tomb ofthe Due dHarcourt and that of theMarechaldeSaxe(Figs. 594, 59
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