Scratched Note on Godard's Women

Though Godard and his alter ego recreated (after Rembrandt and Goya) Delacroix in Passion, we must recognize that the typical Delacroix woman is--like the bare-shouldered beauty in Passion and the corner of The Entry of the Crusaders into Jerusalem--passive, supine, even defeated. (Atypical is the Delacroix woman leading the war!) Godard's (nude) women are more like Courbet's--Courbet, the champion of the Paris Commune!