"....an old but very modern truth: Classicism is the sun-facing side of Romanticism."
-Holland Cotter, art critic of the N.Y. Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/15/arts/design/15pous.html?pagewanted=all
Paintings by Nicholas Poussin, the leading French painter of the 17th century, the period of French classicism:
L'inspiration du poete. (Inspiration of the Poet). Private Collection. U.K
Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres, La Baigneuse de Valpincon. 1808. Louvre.
The leading exponent of Neo-classicism in the 19th century.
Eugene Delacroix, "La Liberté guidant le peuple" (1830)
The leading exponent of Romanticism in the 19th century.