French portrait engraving of the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries (1910)
Thomas, Thomas Head, 1881- · London : Bell · leaf 107
k of art. It is carefullydrawn, but the form is over rounded and smoothened,—andbeside one of Nanteuils own portraits the face is empty.The plate is polished and smoothed and burnished until thecharacter is lost from the head,—and beside the finest platesof his best period, it seems saccharine and… … NANTEUIL 53 noted as one of his masterpieces, the van Steenberghen (afterDuchastel), is not only not typical of Nanteuil, but not tobe mentioned beside his best work. It is purely reproductivein character, and depends wholly for its interest upon itssoftness of tone. A half-dozen other French…
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