A short history of engraving [and] etching : for the use of collectors and students; with full bibliography, classified list and index of engravers . d. 1740, 12° (bothen. by G. Van der Gucht), and Richardsons Pamela, 1742 (en. by Gravelot after hisown designs and those of Hayman). JEAN MICHEL MOREAU 215 drawing or preliminary etching. Eisens plates to C. J. Dorats Charles (1770) prove him an impertinent Boucher, dallying, like somany of the French illustrators of the time, on the border-line ofdelicacy, but a graceful artist nevertheless. In the field of con-temporary life Cleme
A short history of engraving [and] etching : for the use of collectors and students; with full bibliography, classified list and index of engravers . d. 1740, 12° (bothen. by G. Van der Gucht), and Richardsons Pamela, 1742 (en. by Gravelot after hisown designs and those of Hayman). JEAN MICHEL MOREAU 215 drawing or preliminary etching. Eisens plates to C. J. Dorats Charles (1770) prove him an impertinent Boucher, dallying, like somany of the French illustrators of the time, on the border-line ofdelicacy, but a graceful artist nevertheless. In the field of con-temporary life Clement Pierre AIarillier was another fairly C. P. draughtsman and engraver. One might note in particularthe plates he designed for French editions of Richardsons SirCharles Gniudtson and Pamela (1784), and his illustrations to LeSages Gil Bias (1796). Jean Michel Moreau (Moreau le jeune, as he is generally Jean Michelcalled in distinction from his brother, the painter, Louis Gabriel ^o^^-Moreau) was an artist with the keenest eye for the small superficiali-ties of society, and judged by his work illustrating contemporary life,. Fig. 81.—P. P. Choffard. Spring. Head-piece to Les Saisons, Amsterdam, 1769. which forms the smaller part of his production, he is the most giftedillustrator of the school. His plates to the first volume of theChansons (1773) of J. B. de Laborde (a valet de chambre ofMarie Antoinette) are of historical importance for the truth withwhich they reflect the atmosphere of the Dauphine and her more ambitious task, and one of his most successful, was theillustration of J. J. Rousseaus CEiivres Completes. The best seriesof engravings after his designs for this work appeared in the 4toedition of 1774-83 (in 12 volumes), which was nominally pub-lished in London,^ and was the work of Noel Le Mire (see ), Nicolas Delaunay, J. B. Slmonet, A. J. Duclos, P. , and others. It is a great rarity to find this edition ofRousseau wit
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