. Engraving and etching : a handbook for the use of students and print collectors . EAN CHARLES FRAXgOIS 299 required effect. Occasionally wood blocks were also usedin the production of broad surface tints and to ^^ive a toneto the paper. The advent of the crayon manner wasparticularly efficacious in smoothing the way for thereproduction of drawings. Its inventor was Jean CharlesFrancois (born at Xanc)- 1717, died at Paris 1769^. Meconceived hisfirst idea for theprocess whileliving in greatpoverty at Dijon,•and brought itto perfection inParis. In re-ceipt of anannual pensionfrom the king,he pr
. Engraving and etching : a handbook for the use of students and print collectors . EAN CHARLES FRAXgOIS 299 required effect. Occasionally wood blocks were also usedin the production of broad surface tints and to ^^ive a toneto the paper. The advent of the crayon manner wasparticularly efficacious in smoothing the way for thereproduction of drawings. Its inventor was Jean CharlesFrancois (born at Xanc)- 1717, died at Paris 1769^. Meconceived hisfirst idea for theprocess whileliving in greatpoverty at Dijon,•and brought itto perfection inParis. In re-ceipt of anannual pensionfrom the king,he produced aseries of platesafter the oldmasters, repro-ductions that forthe time werewonderfully trueto the originals,and were an ad-mirable attempt to render the character of chalk drawings. At the sametime the new process did not altogether fulfil the highexpectations which it had inspired, and this fact no doubtcontributed to Francois early death. Francois was nomean artist, and possessed extraordinary genius for thetechnical side of engraving. One of his plates is a portrait,. JlcHI li ^ 1 I .imJ. F. Dciiis (detail). 300 COLOUR PRINTS which shows almost every possible method of treating theplate—line-engraving, aquatint, and the crayon manner—all of them wrought into such harmony that at first itis scarcely possible to distinguish the different technicalmethods in separate parts of the plate, A genius akin to his was possessed by Louis Bonnet^who worked in Paris, and for a time at St. was skilled not only in reproducing simple drawingsdone in two colours of chalk, but he could render a fullscheme of pastel colouring with such illusion that onealmost seems to see in his print the actual grain andtexture of the pastel. Bonnet was particularly famous asthe discoverer of a white colour material which he appliedto the plate in a final printing, obtaining by this meansmuch more favourable results than by the ordinaryconventional method of using the untouche
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