CHAPTER XI

JUSTE-MILIEU

Moderation the watchword of Louis Philippe's reign, in politics, literature, and art.--Jean Gigoux, a follower of Delacroix and an inexorable realist.--Eugène Isabey.--Middle position occupied by Ary Scheffer between the Classical and the Romantic schools; decline of his popularity.--Hippolyte Flandrin, as a religious painter a French counterpart to the Nazarenes.--Paul Chenavard, compared to Cornelius.--Théodore Chassériau; his short and brilliant career.--Léon Benouville.--Léon Cogniet and his pictures.--Transition from the Romantic school to the historical painters.--The great writers of history: renewed activity in this field: historical tragedies and romances.--Art takes a similar course: popularity and facility of historical painting.--Eugène Devéria; Camille Roqueplan.--Nicolaus Robert Fleury; Louis Boulanger.--Paul Delaroche; his popularity and its causes; his defects as a painter.--Delaroche's pictures.--Thomas Couture 255

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