French portrait engraving of the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries (1910)
Thomas, Thomas Head, 1881- · London : Bell · leaf 233
had never been the case with the Drevets. Alsohis conventions of line have become rigid, and there appearsthe mechanical quality of line which is the cachet of Wille,though it never appeared in his portraits to the absurd ex-treme that it did in his genre subjects. It is very significantthat Willes… … WILLE 119 a hard and unfeeling exactness of line, as if his lines werecut in steel; his tones are cold and hard,—and at times dulland gray and metallic.1 But it is not on account of his technical shortcomings thatWille falls short of the best standard of the Drevet school.His failing is that he is…
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