Under the reign of Louis Philippe, Romanticism triumphed.  From the pens of the great writers of the period - Musset, Hugo, Zola, Balzac, Gérard de Nerval, Théophile Gautier - and from the canvases of Courbet, Devéria, Gaverni, Ingres, David, and Delacroix came an eroticism that was a little tamer than before and more mature.