CHAPTER XVIII

THE MILITARY PICTURE

Why the victory of modernity on the Continent came only by degrees.--Romantic conceptions.--Æsthetic theories and the question of costume.--Painting learns to treat contemporary costume by first dealing with uniform.--France: Gros, Horace Vernet, Hippolyte Bellangé, Isidor Pils, Alexander Protais, Charlet, Raffet, Ernest Meissonier, Guillaume Régamey, Alphonse de Neuville, Aimé Morot, Edouard Détaille.--Germany: Albrecht Adam, Peter Hess, Franz Krüger, Karl Steffeck, Th. Horschelt, Franz Adam, Joseph v. Brandt, Heinrich Lang 92