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Updated: June 2, 2025
It happens that to-day Impressionism is more akin to Ingres than to Delacroix, just as the young poets are more akin to Racine than to Hugo. They reject the foreign elements, and search, before anything else, for the strict national tradition. Degas follows Ingres and resembles him. He is also reminiscent of the Primitives and of Holbein.
Renoir thus affirmed what every artist knows, that art is the creation and not the imitation of form. In his eyes the most valuable part of an artist's education is the intelligent study of what other artists have done. For his own part he studied Courbet and then Delacroix, and, assuredly, from these picked up useful hints for converting sensibility into significant form.
The same year Delacroix, who had already given in 1824 Le Massacre de Scio, in 1826 La Mort du Doge Mariano Faliero, exhibited LE Christ au Jardin des Oliviers, acquired for the Church of Saint Paul; Justinien, for the Council of State; and La Mort de Sardanapale. M. Jules Mareschal says:
The Unitarians, therefore, without awaiting their proposals, under the leadership of the stalwart revolutionary, Vreede, determined to take strong action. The coup d'état they planned was helped forward by two events. The first was the revolution in Paris of September 4, 1797, which led to the replacing of ambassador Noël by the pronounced Jacobin, Charles Delacroix.
"But think of the great artists of the past Raphael, Michael Angelo, Ingres, Delacroix they were all successful." "Let us go," said Stroeve to me, "or I shall kill this man." I saw Strickland not infrequently, and now and then played chess with him. He was of uncertain temper.
This occurred about forty-five years ago; since then we have signally changed all that! Delacroix, who was an enthusiast in color, was the leader of one school of his time, and was opposed by Ingres, who was so wanting in this regard that he was accused of being color-blind. Mme. Thurwanger had a curious experience with these artists.
The popularity of the work, still more than its principles, has contributed to exasperate the Assembly; and serious apprehensions are entertained for the fate of Delacroix, who is ordered for trial to the Revolutionary Tribunal. It would astonish a superficial observer to see with what avidity all forbidden doctrines are read.
And they call him ignorant how idiotic! They will never understand that the individual gift which a man brings in his nature is superior to all acquired knowledge. Delacroix also was ignorant of his profession in their eyes, simply because he could not confine himself to hard and fast rules! Ah! the ninnies, the slavish pupils who are incapable of painting anything incorrectly!
In the church of Saint Sulpice Delacroix extinguishes all the feeble art that surrounds him, but his sense of Catholic art is null. In truth, faith is now dormant, and without that no mystical work is possible! At the present moment Signol is dead, but Olivier Merson is left; vacuity all along the line.
They imitated him as to externals; the spirit of him they could not ensnare. Turner knew him; so did Bonington. Delacroix understood him. So did Chardin, himself a solitary in his century.
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