ENÉE ET DIDON. Un brouillard protecteur obscurcissait les cieux; et comme ils se trouvaient tous deux sans parapluie, Dans une grotte sombre entrainant son amie, Enée en ce beau jour vit couronner ses feux (Enéïde corrigée par M. Villemain).

Trustman, Benjamin A., Trustman, Julia M. · 1842

Aeneas and Dido are walking together under the rain. The divine predestination guided the two during torrential rains to a grotto. During the 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.