A history of French architecture from the death of Mazarin till the death of Louis XV, 1661-1774 . were ruled out of , in spite of his formal methods, Perelle had a remarkablepower of getting gradations of tones, so that some of his engravings givethe effect of drawings made with a fine pen and washed with Indianink, such, for example, as some of the plates in the small set otChantilly.^ The innumerable little figures, as in the plate of the entrancefront to Vaux, or Chambord, or Marly, are as good as those of Callothimself; nor is it exact to say that Perelle was always monotono
A history of French architecture from the death of Mazarin till the death of Louis XV, 1661-1774 . were ruled out of , in spite of his formal methods, Perelle had a remarkablepower of getting gradations of tones, so that some of his engravings givethe effect of drawings made with a fine pen and washed with Indianink, such, for example, as some of the plates in the small set otChantilly.^ The innumerable little figures, as in the plate of the entrancefront to Vaux, or Chambord, or Marly, are as good as those of Callothimself; nor is it exact to say that Perelle was always monotonous inhis background. The view of the basin of Latona from the Terracesteps at Versailles shows a storm cloud in the distance treated as freelyas in a modern etching. Perelle put a good deal more thought into hiswork than critics have given him credit for; and, in spite of his con-vention, he seems to me to have been as supreme in topographicaldrawing as Le Pautre in his drawings of ornament. Diverses Veues de Chantilly dessignez et gravees par Perelle, forty engravings,two to the page. Pl. LIV. H o 11. TO FACE r. 162 Pl. LV
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