^"To the exasperation of public thematic works and heroic virtue, of which Davidian painting was the highest expression, they had been succeeded – at least among the inhabitants of Lyon – by the cult of sentiment, the desire to approach the private life of historical people" – (بالفرنسية) François-René Martin, Historicisme et utopie à Lyon au XIXe siècle, in Le Temps de la peinture, op. cit., p. 152.
^Alphonse Germain, cited by Pierre Vaisse, Le Temps de la peinture, op. cit. p. 21.
