A String of Horses in Front of a Tavern, by Otto Bache

bear witness to his good head and his trained hand, and also
to his patriotic heart, especially manifest in The Soldiers'
Return to Copenhagen in 1849; but such pictures as these,
on prescribed topics, of course, gave no indication of the
bright future that awaited Danish Art.

Another predecessor of the generation of the eighties
was Rosenstand. He began by modeling himself after
Marstrand; he had something of his gift for narrative, but
lacked his humor, so, when he tried to illustrate Holberg, he
failed. He was a pupil of Bonnat, and brought back from
Paris a trained European technique and a luminous palette.
His coloring rapidly lost its lustre, but he preserved his
brilliant technique, and this led him to emulate Marstrand
in an attempt at monumental historical painting. Twice in
succession he was the winner in competitions for the decora-
tion of the Festival Hall in Copenhagen University, and
the paintings he did for it, despite their lack of style, were
distinguished by their naturalness and animation.

Bache and Rosenstand mark the half-way point between
the old and the new in Danish art. For some years, Carl
Bloch held a position similar to theirs. It remained for

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