 Also exhibited at the 1832 Summer Exhibition along with Youth and Pleasure was The Destroying Angel and Daemons of Evil Interrupting the Orgies of the Vicious and Intemperate , seen as a riposte by Etty to his critics . Another of what Etty deemed " visions " , depicting a wholly imaginary scene rather than one from literature , mythology or history , The Destroying Angel shows an imaginary classical temple under attack from a destroying angel and a group of daemons . The human figures , intentionally painted in paler tones than usual to suggest death , each show their fear in a different way . Painted soon after his 1830 travels , it is thought that the heaped corpses and terrified crowds were directly inspired by events Etty had witnessed in Paris . 
