the history of painting is that here we have someone with an academic art background who still kept integrating the new styles in his paintings albeit on small areas to get a teen i think he should be considered in the same breath as monterey there are sections that are very relaxed painted with a light touch he was a fantastic painter and forty who for sure varied for athens he says you know he should be rediscovered as a painter but he's also part of the history of the age he depicted the world of the courts before eight hundred seventy but he also presented a new image of women he stopped painting women in such a stiff static way squeezed almost crushed by their corsets they can move freely in his paintings they're relatively lightly dressed even the women at court aren't suffocating in their finery not that they're dressed in a new fashion they present themselves as very feminine and they can really develop as women in his paintings of i think that's the secret recipe that's why he was so sought after by female clients he gave women the un face so enough their dots are