CHAPTER XII

THE POST-ROMANTIC GENERATION

France under the Second Empire; the society of the period not represented in French art.--Continuation of the old traditions without essential change.--Alexandre Cabanel.--William Bouguereau.--Jules Lefébure.--Henner.--Paul Baudry: his pictures; decoration of the Grand Opera House.--Élie Delaunay: his pictures, decorative painting, and portraits.--The "Genre féroce"; predilection for the horrible in art.--Numerous painters of this school.--Laurens.--Rochegrosse and his pictures.--Henri Regnault 278