. Prints; a brief review of their technique and history . truthful yetideal likeness of old Paris. Le Petit Pontby Charles Meryon is a characteristic plate 133 PRINTS with heavy shadows, fine feehng for struc-tural essentials, endless modifications ofliiiht, and with Notre Dame made duly im-pressive by lifting it high above the nearerbuildings. Every plate has a character of itsown, with here and there a weird reminderof the artists ultimate mental doom. Onlya poet could have conceived a plate likethe Stryge, that evil figure on NotreDame, surveying the vast field of his con-quests. we su
. Prints; a brief review of their technique and history . truthful yetideal likeness of old Paris. Le Petit Pontby Charles Meryon is a characteristic plate 133 PRINTS with heavy shadows, fine feehng for struc-tural essentials, endless modifications ofliiiht, and with Notre Dame made duly im-pressive by lifting it high above the nearerbuildings. Every plate has a character of itsown, with here and there a weird reminderof the artists ultimate mental doom. Onlya poet could have conceived a plate likethe Stryge, that evil figure on NotreDame, surveying the vast field of his con-quests. we survey the reproductive processes,they are drawn, one and all, into the cur-rent of new, original expression. Innovatorsappear even in the conservative camp of en-graving; Ferdinand Gaillard, for instance, anengraver, in that he uses the graver, thoughhe uses it in a manner to him particular, ex-pressive of minutest detail. My aim, hesays, is not to charm but to be art consists in saying all. And he ex-presses all in this wonderful portrait of. DOM PROSPER GUERANGERFerdinand Gaillard
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