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Le peintre-graveur illustré : (xix et xx siècles)

Delteil, Loys, 1869-1927, Albert H. Wiggin Collection (Boston Public Library) · 1906 · Paris : Chez lauteur · 352 pictures

Loys Delteil's multi-volume catalogue raisonné of nineteenth- and twentieth-century etchers and lithographers, self-published in Paris from 1906 for print dealers, collectors and curators. The plates reproduce whole printed sheets in halftone — Goya's war and Disparates scenes among them, with smeared aquatint grounds, figures clawed out of darkness, and wide margins that supply ready-made vignettes and rough tonal textures.

Etching · Lithography

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