French portrait engraving of the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries (1910)
Thomas, Thomas Head, 1881- · London : Bell · leaf 79
lessthan eleven times. No such honours had ever been shownto any engraver in France. But Nanteuil was not a courtier. He seems to have hadno ambition to be a power in the official administration ofthe Beaux-Arts which was being organized by Colbert.Very fortunately, too,—for he was not distracted… … NANTEUIL 37 of the dry satisfaction of official position, Nanteuil proceededto enjoy the society of the rich bourgeoisie, who at thistime, as later in the XVIIIth century, seem to havereceived artists and writers with open arms, and to havelived with them on really sympathetic terms. It was…
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