This Gericault a painting that has a number of mysteries in it related to Cezanne. The buildings maybe just French but look like Cezanne, but the figures are very much like early Cezanne.
The painting is very Classical I guess Poussin influenced, but also contains a Romantic element in the weather and swirling movement echoed on the Michaelangelo like figures.
Shocking to me how Cezanne like this detail is.
Rousseau's painting is a much more Romantic painting in the strain leading to an American Ryder or Inness. The Delacroix adds a new color to this Romantic motion. And set it in opposition to Ingres Classical line and what can be seen here in Puvis de Chavannes.
Puvis a very modernized Classicism that later influences Picasso and countless others, again coming from Ingres.
Corot also mixes the Classical solidity of Claude Lorrain with a realism which comes from his Roman plain air paintings and the Romantic mystery in the foreground figures.
Here the Plain Air light.
The everyday light of the moment is here beginning a trend in content bringing religious content into the everyday.
Corot goes into Courbet in so many differing strands. Influencing this Nude and landscape even the portrait that then also goes into Picasso.
The french painters are looking at nature and in to Art. This portrait has so much in it Hals, Manet later, Picasso, a certain line of Ingres, coming from Poussin and Lorrain.
The characteristics of this head seem to come from Corot and then onto Balzac. (meant to say Balthus)
Courbet takes everything from Corot and makes it Grand.
He takes out the Angel for a religion of the everyday.
A Courbet landscape. Which we now see go into Manet.
Its not so easy to say what happens here. He certainly plays on the green and black, nature and the encroaching urban reality?
More influences opening up like Goya?
The bravura brush of Goya and Hals is transmitted to Sargent and Henri in America.
This Boudin could be an early Monet, Manet is right there also as the reigning artist.
Monet and Impressionism sweep in a new era of painting.
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