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Léandre. Chaque nuit, peut vêtu, mais de façon galante, Et comptant sur son bras de fer. Il traversait un bras de mer Pour aller se jeter dans ceux de son amante. Byron poésies très mélées.
Trustman, Benjamin A., Trustman, Julia M. · 1842
Leander is swimming across the sea to see his lover. During this time, 1840's, a quarrel between painters of the classic and romantic schools had fully flared up. Delacroix asked the "loaded" question: "Who is going to liberate us from the old Greeks?" Daumier succeeded to answer it his own way by showing historic personalities such as Hercules, Pygmalion or Agamemnon in absurd situations.
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