as animal painter and as etcher. Heplaces his animals, usually pasturing goats and sheep, amidRoman landscape, and groups them carefully, avoiding the 266 ENGRAVING IN GERMANY fault of haphazard realism and want of arrangement intowhich Dutch etchers of animal pieces so often fall. Rooshas the… … Fig. 120. Jonas Umbach: Tritons (detail). and his son, Johann Melchior, both made occasional essayswith the etching-needle. Genre scenes of peasant life found a gifted interpreterin Matthias Scheits (c. 1640—c. 1700), a Hamburg painter,who etched in a light and easy style somewhat in thespirit of…
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