. Engraving and etching : a handbook for the use of students and print collectors . or from Roman landscapes. His successfulgenre pictures (fig. lOO) are on the whole fewer; but, likehis landscapes, they show a pictorial sense rare at thisperiod ; he frequently calls in the assistance of the most important works, Aquapendente, * The Arch ofTitus, The Coopers, The Great Charlatan, date fromthe beginning of his seventieth \-ear. Jean Pierre Norblin (1745—1830) worked for manyyears as director of an Art School at Warsaw, and, likehis German contemporary Dietrich, endeavoured to reviv
. Engraving and etching : a handbook for the use of students and print collectors . or from Roman landscapes. His successfulgenre pictures (fig. lOO) are on the whole fewer; but, likehis landscapes, they show a pictorial sense rare at thisperiod ; he frequently calls in the assistance of the most important works, Aquapendente, * The Arch ofTitus, The Coopers, The Great Charlatan, date fromthe beginning of his seventieth \-ear. Jean Pierre Norblin (1745—1830) worked for manyyears as director of an Art School at Warsaw, and, likehis German contemporary Dietrich, endeavoured to revivethe methods of Rembrandt. He has at his disposal anunusual amount of technical dexterity, and his plates,in which he reproduces his own compositions or originalsascribed to Dietrich and Rembrandt, are worked with afine point and display genuine artistic spirit his return to Paris in 1789 his art work was of nofurther importance. At this point must also be mentioned Dominique VivantDenon (1747—1825), an amateur of considerable talent 220 ENGRAVING IN FRANCE. lOo, Jean Jacques Boissicu :Th-c Village School (detail). and surprising technicalversatility. His love ofart made him conversantwith works of the mostdifferent schools. Hewasparticularly influencedby the painters of theNetherlands — he repro-duced, for instance,Potters famous Bull ina folio-sized print—distin-guishing himself gener-ally by his command ofetching on plates of thelargest size. Denon wasDirector of the MuseeNapoleon in Paris. Jean Duplessi-Bertaux(1747—i8i3) works witha fine needle on thecopper, drawing cleverlytreated military scenesand small figures. Hehas been compared onthis account with Callot,but is perhaps most closelyakin to his German con-temporary painter-etchingwas less practised inFrance than that mannerof work which approachesvery nearly to the treat- JEAN MICHEL MOREAU 221 ment and style of line-engraving in its mechanical of the
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