. Prints; a brief review of their technique and history . tration 91 PRINTS one of his views of old Paris, with the Tourde Nesle prominent in the foreground. Inhis hundreds of pLates we see the miseriesof warfare described as well as the gayetyof public festivities and the pomp of cere-monies of state which he witnessed in Flor-ence. Claude Lorrain, an originator andgifted exponent of landscape, has occasion-ally taken up the etching-needle, largely inan experimental spirit, modifying his tech-nicjue at different times, and showing him-self, like other noted painters and occasionaletchers, inf
. Prints; a brief review of their technique and history . tration 91 PRINTS one of his views of old Paris, with the Tourde Nesle prominent in the foreground. Inhis hundreds of pLates we see the miseriesof warfare described as well as the gayetyof public festivities and the pomp of cere-monies of state which he witnessed in Flor-ence. Claude Lorrain, an originator andgifted exponent of landscape, has occasion-ally taken up the etching-needle, largely inan experimental spirit, modifying his tech-nicjue at different times, and showing him-self, like other noted painters and occasionaletchers, infinitely more clever in the designthan in the actual etching. The plate chosenfor illustration, called Le Bouvier, is themost famous of his prints; in it w^e perceive(provided we see a fine early impression) therich tonal eftect, the sense of airiness, ofspace, the delightful composition, the knowl-edge of natures forms and of atmosphericaspects, which appear far more markedlystill in the paintings of this master. The new awakening in French engraving 92. OS FRANCE ill the seventeenth century is especially no-table in portrait engraving, (ierniany haslost its leadership in the gra])hic arts; thegreat days of Italian engraving are likewiseover, though Italy continues a source of in-spiration to painters of all nations, she canadd no vital, helpful impulse to life-giving influences could only comefrom the Netherlands, where the great tideof art is now at its height, where paintingand the graphic arts have unfolded all theirglory. Here the etchers and the engraverstechnique, very highly developed, is grow-ing yet in perfection. What could be morenatural than the powerful stimulus exertedby such excellence on French engraving? Itsgreatest triumphs coincide, in point of time,with the period of political supremacy ofFrance during the reign of Louis XIV. TheGrand Monarque infused grandeur intoall the arts. The stately graver is the me-dium aptly chosen for numerous portr
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