Whakakihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Ko nga Roma i roto i to ratou Decadence () he peita na te kaitoi French a Thomas Couture, i whakaatu tuatahihia i te Paris Salon o 1847, kotahi tau i mua o te
1848 Revolution i hinga ai te Rangatiratanga o Hurae. Ko te mahi tino whakamoemiti i te Salon. He mea whakamaumahara ki te kāhua o Raphael, he mea noa iho o te kāhua 'kōrero' French i waenga i te 1850 me te 1900. I tēnei wā, kei te whare taonga o Musée d'Orsay i Paris. Na Edmond Hédouin (1820<unk>1889) i whakairo.