French portrait engraving of the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries (1910)
Thomas, Thomas Head, 1881- · London : Bell · leaf 55
articularly distinguishes Mellanamong engravers; it is his technique which is the peculiarcachet of his personality, and which, it must be confessed,is so conspicuous that it commonly obscures the very solidmerits of his work. In nothing, perhaps, is he more char-acteristically French, developing… … MELLAN 25 than by adding new ones, and the modelling of the formcleverly suggested by the flow of the lines. Mellan carriedthis idea to a point undreamt of by even so ingenious atechnician as Goltzius; his lines wander over the figure inendless sweeping curves, and cross-hatching he avoids as…
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