sentences:  Thanks to its moving subject matter, the painting was an enormous success – seeing it, David cried "This resembles nothing anyone else has done, it's a new effect of colour; the figure is charming and full of expression, and this green curtain thrown across this window renders the illusion complete".Compositions lit from the back of the scene, with the foreground in semi-darkness, became rather a trademark of the early years of the style.Fragonard's painting of "François Premier reçu chevalier par Bayard" ("Francis I knighted by Bayard", Salon of 1819) has to be read not as a rediscovery of a medieval past, but as a memory of a recent monarchic tradition.