A short history of engraving [and] etching : for the use of collectors and students; with full bibliography, classified list and index of engravers . 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
A short history of engraving [and] etching : for the use of collectors and students; with full bibliography, classified list and index of engravers . 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—J. F. MILLET 315 expressions of his genius. Like his paintings they are studiesof peasant life, full of sympathy for the great elemental forces innature and hfe, and pervaded with the sense of power and mysterybehind the relation between man and the soil, which encircles thehumblest toil with a halo of dignity and romance. His earliestetchings, studies in which the roulette plays considerable part,. Fig. 105.—J. F. IMillet. Woman sewing. undoubtedly owe their inspiration to Jacque, in whose companyMillet left Paris for Barbizon in 1849. Then in the same yearto which these first essays belong (1855), follow two or three platesof remarkable completeness as works of art { the Womanchurning (Delteil 10, Leb. 11) and the Woman sewing (Leb. 10,De. 9, Fig. 105). In both strong hne-work suffices to realise a finetreatment of light and shade, a problem which is still furtherdeveloped in the Tivo Women sewi?ig by Candlelight {T)q. 14). In o i6 MODERN ETCHING his last etchings (and these fall less than ten years after his firstattempts) there is a greater breadth of handling and little thoughtfor chiaroscuro, the Shepherdess knitting oi 1862 (De. 18), where somuch more care is given to the quality of the line than in theearlier plates, be
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