French portrait engraving of the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries (1910)
Thomas, Thomas Head, 1881- · London : Bell · leaf 209
inetching. He was received into the Academie with this platein 1720. Jacques-Nicolas Tardieu was the son and pupil ofNicolas-Henri; he engraved more portraits than his father,about 20 in all. He was a skilful burinist, but few of hisplates are attractive; he works with little feeling and has 1 Cars… … TARDIEU; THOMASSIN 107 a hardness that may have come in part from Wille. HisPrince Galitzin is very much like Wille. This hardness wascommon to a number of engravers who continued, after themiddle of the century, the manner of the Drevets,—amongthem N. Dupuis, P.-L. Surugue, Daulle and Balechou,not…
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