French painters 19th century
In 1800, the French were enchanted to help make the acquaintance associated with elegantly reclining, fashionably attired Madame Recamier, 1800 (fig. 1), as portrayed by Jacques-Louis David. A hundred years later on, in 1904, these people were accosted by the splotchy, psychedelic numbers in Matisse’s Luxe, calme, et volupté…