A short history of engraving [and] etching : for the use of collectors and students; with full bibliography, classified list and index of engravers . d this influence with a distant imitation of the ideals ofthe Little Masters of Germany. The engraver who directly copied most from the Germans is Noel GarnNoel Garnier, but his work (dating between about 1520 and 1540)is of little worth. In Jean Gourmont we meet the best representative of the Jeanspirit of the Little Masters transplanted to France, and treated Gourmom. I02 THE GREAT MASTERS OF ENGRAVING with considerable originality. He appears
A short history of engraving [and] etching : for the use of collectors and students; with full bibliography, classified list and index of engravers . d this influence with a distant imitation of the ideals ofthe Little Masters of Germany. The engraver who directly copied most from the Germans is Noel GarnNoel Garnier, but his work (dating between about 1520 and 1540)is of little worth. In Jean Gourmont we meet the best representative of the Jeanspirit of the Little Masters transplanted to France, and treated Gourmom. I02 THE GREAT MASTERS OF ENGRAVING with considerable originality. He appears as a printer in Paris asearly as 1506, but his engravings seem to belong to some twodecades later, when he was working in Lyons. In making adapta-tions from Italian models (^.^^. from the niello-print of Three WomenDancing., Duch. 287, and from some prints of the Laocoon) he knowswell how to set his subject amid the simple renaissance architecture,with little or no decoration, which characterises his school. Hislittle Nativity (B. 2), a small roundel like so many of these earlyFrench prints, though possessing none of the finesse of the best of. Fig. 40.—Jean Duvet. Part of a Plate from the Apocalypse series. the German Little Masters, is a good of the sound andsimple method of shading he adopted. He also engraved a fewportraits somewhat in the manner of Martino Rota. Another Lyons artist working on similar lines to Gourmont isthe engraver who uses the monogram CC, which almost certainlyindicates some member of the Corneille family, if not a work has none of the sound technical qualities of the former,and his draughtsmanship is distinctly inferior. A series of Portraitsof the Kings of Fra?ice, published in 1546 by Balthasar ArnouUet{Epitomes des Roys de France), has at least an historical interest. FRENCH ENGRAVERS OF ORNAMENT 103 To the same school of Lyons belongs also Georges Reverdy, GeorgesCe. Reverdinus, as he Latinised his name, to the confusion of a
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