CHAPTER X

THE GENERATION OF 1830

The revolt of the Romanticists against Classicism in literature and art.--Théodore Géricault and his early works.--"The Raft of the Medusa."--Eugène Delacroix: protest against the conventional, and renewed importance of colour.--Delacroix's pictures; influence of the East upon him.--His life and struggles.--The Classical reaction.--J. A. D. Ingres and the opposition to Romanticism.--His classical pictures.--Excellence of his portraits and drawings 219