French portrait engraving of the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries (1910)
Thomas, Thomas Head, 1881- · London : Bell · leaf 301
t of his portraits are of this kind, and are verytypical ones. Among his other plates are his Grmia/di, amedallion in the manner of Cochin, and his Poullain deSatJit-Foix, a very highly finished miniature, with an elabor-ately decorated frame which is very characteristic of the 1 Maurice Blot,… … CHOFFARD; DE LAUNAY 155 Louis XVI style. His Claude Rousselet, a bust within anoval frame of the standard size, is interesting in showingthe technique of a miniature engraver applied to a fairlylarge plate. The most minute modulations of form are care-fully worked out, and quite as highly finished…
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