Meissonier, his life and his art . .^ IN A SlOK;,l. (Sepia drawing.) muscles, the movements, that they never contradict the sense of theform. It will be a hajjpy day for me when my engraver begins to thinkof draining more than of values. Engravers often give the outlinescorrectly enough, but they miss the various depths of shading. And >. ^ k -5 ?S^^. -^ v^^> %1^_^: HIS PROFESSION 225 how often they fail to understand some form ! The great difficultyin engraving is to render the expression of the heads. Each has theexpression proper to its own character and attitude. With that
Meissonier, his life and his art . .^ IN A SlOK;,l. (Sepia drawing.) muscles, the movements, that they never contradict the sense of theform. It will be a hajjpy day for me when my engraver begins to thinkof draining more than of values. Engravers often give the outlinescorrectly enough, but they miss the various depths of shading. And >. ^ k -5 ?S^^. -^ v^^> %1^_^: HIS PROFESSION 225 how often they fail to understand some form ! The great difficultyin engraving is to render the expression of the heads. Each has theexpression proper to its own character and attitude. With thatparticular head, the personage could make no other gesture than theone I have given. Wherever I see perfection, it gives me intense pleasure ; even Insuch commonplace things as the wood-work of my house in Paris, andthe spotless surface of the dressed stone in the walls. These things act upon the mind as well as upon the eyes, and in mycalling, I have often observed their effect. The diagonal lines in whichthe newer streets are built, have necessitated irregularity of line instructures. Some of my f«7?-{/r^r^i, whose studios have been built underthese conditions, have gradually lost their correctness of eye, and theirworks have suffered. . I have an immense power of work. I work quickly, passionately,frankly. But I am slow in reaching my ultimate rende
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