French portrait engraving of the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries (1910)
Thomas, Thomas Head, 1881- · London : Bell · leaf 141
n portraiture. He reproduces accurately what isput before him, and that is all. His faces are lively in ex-pression,—and his likenesses are accurate enough; but helacks depth. He gives a satisfactory picture of the outsideof a man,—but of that astonishingly keen and convincing Edelincks Descartes… … t >l > , I C ( lUltln . :. - : C.riiiua In/...-- m1h t:\cilL-nliti ,t./m.<i: EDELINCK 71 expression of a whole personality that comes from one of thefaces of Nanteuil—Edelinck has not a trace. It would be difficult to find a better illustration of theessential difference between original…
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