   Top: Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix (The Louvre);
Center: The Chateau de Challain-la-Potherie a Renaissance Revival chateau (1870s) Bottom: Imaginary View of the Grand Gallery of the Louvre in Ruins, Hubert Robert (1796) (Louvre) | |
| Years active | late 18th-mid-late 19th century |
|---|---|
Romanticism (Romantisme in French) was a literary and artistic movement that appeared in France in the late 18th century, largely in reaction against the formality and strict rules of the official style of neo-classicism. It reached its peak in the first part of the 19th century, in the writing of François-René de Chateaubriand and Victor Hugo, the poetry of Alfred de Vigny; the painting of Eugène Delacroix; the music of Hector Berlioz; and later in the architecture of Charles Garnier. It was gradually replaced beginning in the late 19th century by the movements of Art Nouveau, realism and modernism.