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Engraving and etching; a handbook for the use of students and print collectors (1906)

Lippmann, Friedrich, 1839-1903, Lehrs, Max, 1855-1938, Hardie, Martin, 1875-1952 · London, H. Grevel · leaf 234

An illustration from Engraving and etching; a handbook for the use of students and print collectors, 1906, leaf 234 — atthe very summit of his art. Drevet, however, was strictlydependent 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… … 214 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 of CardinalDubois. Claude Drevet followed the style of his uncle…

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