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Excerpt from Parisian Art and Artists
French art, distinctively so called, might a few years back have been easily defined; its peculiarities were definitely marked in the school of David and those which followed. Some twenty years ago the romantic school became the fashion, with Eugene Delacroix at the head, whose works are still treasured, inasmuch as they bear the stamp of origi nality and are the productions of a great genius. But his followers have long since disappeared, the student of to-day Choosing to copy the method of some fashionable master of his own generation.
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