Lawrence's drawing of Mlle. Duvaucel is placed in the salon d'Apollon in the Louvre, it is placed poorly; she provides an opinion on the Paris salon of that year, provided by "Mme. Sophie", it has been overrun by "la peinture romantique", whose devotees include
Vernet,
Scheffer,
Devéria and particularly
De la Croix who has a monstrous painting called
The Death of Sardanapalus; Sophie is not impressed by Romantic truth to nature.