French Portrait Engraving of the Xviith And Xviiith Centuries
French Portrait Engraving of the Xviith And Xviiith Centuries
Thomas Head Thomas
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He was an engraver not only by ancestry, but from his surroundings. " Charles Nicolas fils est eleve dans cette rue Saint-Jacques, dont le bapteme est reste a notre imagerie moderne, " to quote again from the de Goncourts' admirable essay on Cochin, "dans cette rue glorieuse de l'enseigne des Deux Piliers d'Or, de Gerard Audran, de l'enseigne de Charlemagne Quis major Carolo, de son pere, de l'enseigne Au Maecenas de son oncle Tardieu, de l'enseigne A la belle image de Poilly, de l'enseigne de ...la Veuve Chereau et des autres. II grandit au milieu de ce quartier de la gravure et de l'enluminure . . . 136 THE LOUIS XVI PERIOD precoce en tout, " in his studies as well as in his future metier. While still a little boy he was at work in the atelier of Le Bas, but at the same time was being - seriously trained by his father, in burin work, "with laborious copies of Bolswert, Goltzius, and Francois de Poilly. " It was not, however, until 1735 that his first plate appeared. Almost at once after this begins the long series of plates illustrating fetes and ceremonies which first brought him his fame, and made him the fashion in Paris for every kind of decorative design or illustration.
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