And Natural Romanticists (whatever that may mean). Feuillet holds a place midway between the romanticists and the realists. Fet-Mats became an inspiration for the German romanticists. During the Romanticism period in the early nineteenth century romanticists rediscovered Runkelstein. This trend was later also adopted by Latvian national romanticists. The poem, one critic comments, "makes Pope one of the forerunners of the Romanticists". He gravitated to the Romanticists and concentrated on sacred art. The Romanticists in French painting were led by Theodore Gericault and especially Delacroix.