A short history of engraving [and] etching : for the use of collectors and students; with full bibliography, classified list and index of engravers . careful work in the late thirties, which scarcely betrays thepower that was to come. His original etchings did not begin toappear until about 1841, and from that time, for several decades, inParis, and at intervals at Barbizon, he continued a prolific activity. 314 MODERN ETCHING It was perhaps his early training in vignette that suggested to himthe use of roulette work, which he frequently combines with theetched line to attain tone,
A short history of engraving [and] etching : for the use of collectors and students; with full bibliography, classified list and index of engravers . careful work in the late thirties, which scarcely betrays thepower that was to come. His original etchings did not begin toappear until about 1841, and from that time, for several decades, inParis, and at intervals at Barbizon, he continued a prolific activity. 314 MODERN ETCHING It was perhaps his early training in vignette that suggested to himthe use of roulette work, which he frequently combines with theetched line to attain tone, in the Cow-herd (G. 94), and Labonne Compazine (G. 120). The latter plate and many othersshow how much his feeling was in harmony with that of the earlyDutch etchers of genre such as Ostade, whom he frequently copiedin his youth. Imbued with the wide sympathy for all types of peasantlife which characterises the school, he stands apart from the rest asthe special devotee of the swine-herd, a subject which he repeatedagain and again { G. 153, Fig. 104). At his best—and thenecessities of doing hack-work often show him at something much. Fig. 104.—Charles Jacque. The Swine-herd. lower—Jacque is among the great etchers in the significance ofhis expression as a linealist. Among the other etchers of the school C. F. Daubigny ismost akin to Jacque in the character of his work, but it is onlyin a few of his best plates that he commands an equal strength ofline { certain examples in the Cahier dEaiix-fortes, publishedin 1851). He etched at various times between 1838 and 1874. Far less prolific as an etcher than either Jacque or Daubigny,but in some respects the noblest representative of the best elementsof the Barbizon school, is Jean FRAN901S Millet. He only lefttwenty plates, and some half-dozen of the earliest of these are theslightest of studies, but the rest are the creations of a consciouspower, which places them on a level with his paintings as perfect I JACQUE
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