. Prints; a brief review of their technique and history . ^ AugusteRaffet. In his Midnight Review we seeinnumerable hosts of shades, passing in re-view before the phantom emperor on hiswhite charger; an immense concourse in-sensibly merging into the mists of night. In the forties there is a welcome revival ofetching, Charles Jacque being one of the pio-neers, skillful alike in his handling of acidand dry-point. His theme is the peasantslife, his setting the wooded, undulating re-gion about Barbizon: broad, sunny fields,thriving farms, pastures with cattle, sheep,and pigs, for which he shows an
. Prints; a brief review of their technique and history . ^ AugusteRaffet. In his Midnight Review we seeinnumerable hosts of shades, passing in re-view before the phantom emperor on hiswhite charger; an immense concourse in-sensibly merging into the mists of night. In the forties there is a welcome revival ofetching, Charles Jacque being one of the pio-neers, skillful alike in his handling of acidand dry-point. His theme is the peasantslife, his setting the wooded, undulating re-gion about Barbizon: broad, sunny fields,thriving farms, pastures with cattle, sheep,and pigs, for which he shows an especialpredilection. The peasant, here, is no longer 130 F ^ w *-i ?M > ,* & ti tf ^ H o M a 2 3bo 3
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