Published on the occasion of the exhibition Charles Gleyre (1806-1874). The reformed Romantic at musée d'Orsay from 10 May to 11 September 2016. To date, France has never devoted a solo exhibition to Charles Gleyre. Yet he was a major figure in academy painting in Paris in the mid-nineteenth century. For a long time, given the smooth perfection of his facture and his subject matter, mostly taken from mythology, he was taken for a cold, conventional esthete blind to the revolutions of his time. However, research into the history of art draws attention to the important role played by his
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