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Engraving and etching : a handbook for the use of students and print collectors (1907)

Lippmann, Friedrich, 1839-1903, Lehrs, Max, 1855-1938, Hardie, Martin, 1875-1952 · New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 233

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m atthe very summit of his art. Drevet, however, was strictl)dependent on the paintings which fell to him to engrave,and his prints accordingly have an uneven value cor-responding to that of the pictures on which they arebased. The principal works of his later period are thefull-length portraits of… … Fig 97. Pierre i»r<.\tt K u m ct Robert de Cotte (detail)213 2 14 ENGRAVING IN FRANCE kneeling before the Madonna ; in 1723 he completed hisportrait of Bossuet_after Rigaud, perhaps the finest of allthe engraved portraits of France, and in the followingyear his almost equally excellent portrait…

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