. Engraving and etching : a handbook for the use of students and print collectors . 94), who was a pupil of GeorgFriedrich Schmidt during the latters residence in Paris,and who combined in a remarkable measure purity oftechnique and artistic feeling. His work is in no waythin or worried, but absolutely free, and apparently nevercarried to particular finish. It may perhaps be character-ised as the execution of Nanteuil or Drevet on a muchsmaller scale. In minute work Ficquet is surpassed by anamateur, Jean Baptiste Grateloup (Paris, 1735—1817),whose nine portraits, a few inches in size, are mar
. Engraving and etching : a handbook for the use of students and print collectors . 94), who was a pupil of GeorgFriedrich Schmidt during the latters residence in Paris,and who combined in a remarkable measure purity oftechnique and artistic feeling. His work is in no waythin or worried, but absolutely free, and apparently nevercarried to particular finish. It may perhaps be character-ised as the execution of Nanteuil or Drevet on a muchsmaller scale. In minute work Ficquet is surpassed by anamateur, Jean Baptiste Grateloup (Paris, 1735—1817),whose nine portraits, a few inches in size, are marvels oftheir kind. To the same group of little masters belongsPierre Savart. 2l8 ENGRAVING IN FRANCE In comparison with line-engraving etching is of onlysecondary importance in the French art of this have, it is true, etchings by almost all the Frenchpainters, but their technique remains simple and un-developed, and the work of the period wins little admira-tion. By Watteau are some delicately etched studies ofsingle figures ; Boucher etches partly after Watteau, and. ^i& 99- Jean Honore Fragonard : From the set of Sat3TS at Play (detail). partly after his own compositions ; by Nattoir are somehastily executed groups of children. Honore Fragonard(1732—1806) [fig. 99] was inspired to etch by Tiepolo,and beside some hasty sketches he executed some carefulplates, such as The Lovers in the Cupboard, etc. PierreParrocel etched after Subleyras and from some of his owncompositions in the contemporary Italian manner, like hisfather, Joseph Parrocel, the battle-painter, who founded his BOISSIEU: NORBLIN: DEXOX 219 style on that of Salvator Rosa. Jean Baptiste Oudry{1686—1755) etched hunting-scenes and animal pieces ina hard but vigorous style. The illustrations of the largefolio edition of La Fontaines Fables arc for the mostpart excellent!} reproduced by Tardieu, Avcline, Cars,Lebas, and others, from Oudrys drawings. In the second half of the century Jean Jacques Boissi
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