French portrait engraving of the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries (1910)
Thomas, Thomas Head, 1881- · London : Bell · leaf 201
cy of the Drevet manner to be tooprecise and too elaborate. It did its best to prevent portraitengraving from falling into a rigid formula, and it stimulatedengravers to concern themselves with really artistic qualitiesrather than to remain satisfied with mere technical skill. Ifit had succeeded,… … loins cUcutpvin ac < hxaux ). THE AUDRANS 103 ably have been able to translate the works of painters whowere quite out of the reach of its ordinary methods. On account of these different tendencies it is very difficultto classify strictly the portrait engravings of the Louis XVperiod by…
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