Engravings In Mezzotint Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Engravings in Mezzotint The original picture is in the possession of the Earl of Dudley and hangs in his town residence in Carlton Gardens; it is apparently identical with the work described in Smith's l'catalogue Raisonne, No. 76 as in the possession of Mr. Smith Owen, at Condover in 1827. It has only once before been engraved, in 1876, when a line engraving on a small size (i.e. 10 x83 was executed by F. I. Ioubert for Mrs. Noseda. It is one of Greuze's most attractive heads and ranks equally with any of those in the Wallace Collection and in the Louvre. Greuze's reputation tovday chie y rests on his single heads and figures of young children and of girlhood just budding into womanhood, in all of which simplicity is blended with a voluptuous grace unexcelled by any other artist, French or foreign. Very little is known of the history of the picture, which is one of the several examples of Greuze ac. Quired by one of the greatest collectors of modern times, the late Earl of Dudley, whose splendid gallery of Old Masters. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."