. Engraving and etching : a handbook for the use of students and print collectors . skilledengravers such as Jean Daulle (1703—1763) and JeanJoseph Balechou (1719—1764). In the domain of pure burin work the master of mostinfluence during the latter part of the eighteenth centuryis Georg Wille (born near Giessen, 1715 ; died in Paris,1807). His great talent in the technical side of engravingdeceived his contemporaries, and hides in a remarkablemanner his lack of genuine training and of true artisticfeeling. In his youth Wille came to Paris self-taught, andremained there during his whole life. H
. Engraving and etching : a handbook for the use of students and print collectors . skilledengravers such as Jean Daulle (1703—1763) and JeanJoseph Balechou (1719—1764). In the domain of pure burin work the master of mostinfluence during the latter part of the eighteenth centuryis Georg Wille (born near Giessen, 1715 ; died in Paris,1807). His great talent in the technical side of engravingdeceived his contemporaries, and hides in a remarkablemanner his lack of genuine training and of true artisticfeeling. In his youth Wille came to Paris self-taught, andremained there during his whole life. He lays his graver-lines with painful clearness, adapting them with scrupulouscare to the nature of the object he represents. Hisdrawing accordingly is dry and lifeless, but the outwardperfection of his work assured him of his position as a GEORG WILLP: 2 I valued master and teacher almost to the end of his his numerous followers Wille set the example ofstrivinij above all for absolute regularity in the laying ofengraved lines with almost mechanical exactness ; and it. Ilu. (jS, (^L-org Willc: Txij- blowing Soap Bubbles, afterCaspar Nctscher (detail). was this influence that helped in no small degree to thedecline of the art of line-engraving. Wille reproducedseveral pictures by Netscher (fig. 98), Mieris, G. Dow, of his most famous plates is the Paternal Advice, 2i6 ENGRAVING IN FRANCE after Terburg, in which the sheen of the silk dress wornby the lady standing in the foreground is rendered withadmirable truth. Wille often engraved paintings byC. W. E. Dietrich, whom he held in high esteem. Amongother excellent plates may be mentioned his portraits ofFrederick the Great after Pesne and of Saint-Florentinafter Tocque. In opposition to Audran and the engravers of theWatteau School Wille represents the firm principle thatrecognises the burin as the only suitable tool for theengraver. His successors worked in the same spirit asrepresentatives of a tendency bound
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