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The little angels that sport with the emblems of the future cardinal are full of spirit, and, at the same time, sweetness. 2 Edelinck saw only the reign of Louis XIV. Nanteuil was able to en- grave very few of the great men of the time of Louis XIII. , and the regency, and in the latter part of their life ; Mazarin, in his last five or six years ; Conde', growing old ; Turenne, old ; Fouquet and Matthieu Mole, some years before the fall of the one and the death of the other ; and he was too oft...en obliged to waste his talent upon a crowd of parliamentarians, ecclesiastics, and obscure financiers. FRENCH ART IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. 203 still young, and Retz, when he was only a coadjutor. 1 Mellan had the same advantage. He is the first in date of all the en- gravers of the seventeenth century, and perhaps is also the most expressive. With a single line, it seems that from his hands only shades can spring ; he does not strike at first sight ; but the more we regard him, the more he seizes, penetrates, and touches, like Lesueur.
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