French portrait engraving of the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries (1910)
Thomas, Thomas Head, 1881- · London : Bell · leaf 133
t was undoubtedly due to his early training: he hadbegun as an armurier et damasquinier, so that his firstexperience with the burin had been on steel plates. It is difficult to make a choice of Massons best plates.He is almost never commonplace, and even those plateswhich show the worst faults are… … EDELINCK 67 as portraits, and there is a certain personality even inMassons exaggerated effects of tone. But on the whole thequieter and more normal portraits are the more satisfactory;such as Massons Portrait of Himself, N. de Lamoignon,Henry de Fourcy, Forbin de Janson, and (in spite of itsrather…
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