print to haveemployed the burin with consummate ease in the renderingof texture and material; it is a masterpiece of realism. Thisportrait of Mignard established Schmidts fame as a greatmaster of technique. With only trifling lapses he main-tained his style at this high level of excellence. It… … Fig. 122. Georg Friedrich Schmidt: Christ and the Daughterof Jairus (detail). in the copper, the thickness of each stroke as it progressesfrom shadow into light being moderated with unfailingappreciation of the value of tone. In expressing materialsand surface texture, the system of lines is so…
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