Quelle 13: Ein mit „A“ unterzeichnender unbekannter Autor zur Le duc de Guise assassiné au château de Blois par les mignons de Henri III von 1834 (Bild)

A.: Salon de 1835, in: Le Constitutionnel, 30. März 1835, zitiert nach Ziff 1977, S. 151.

This capacity of the artist to treat serious subjects in miniature, to give grace to an assassination can become fatal to pathos and grandeur in art.

Quelle 14: Delaroche über seine Malerei

Louis Ulbach: Paul Delaroche, in: Revue de Paris, Bd. XXXVI (1. April 1857), S. 349-372, hier S. 359, zitiert nach Ziff 1977, S. 243.

If we lived in another time, I would execute a Deposition lifesize, and I would try to prove that I know how to idealize when it comes to Our Lord and his mother; but the general poetic no longer exists. Without becoming complacent, one should not misunderstand public sentiment, if one wishes to appeal to eyes and understanding hearts. I have never prostrated myself before the fashion of the day; but I have always thought that one can produce very serious art in serving the ideas which have preoccupied our society for the last 60 years. I believe that I am as right today as yesterday. One must be a truly great genius to carry the crowd with as much fervor and sympathy before the last goodbyes of the Virgin to her son as before (Marie-Antoinette), martyred yesterday, condemned to death by political passions.