Word: drevet
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...Four colored wood-cuts from the 1483 "Nuremberg Bible" are the oldest objects present. There is an impression in its second state of Rembrandt's etching "St. Peter and St. John at the Gate of the Temple". The seventeenth century French portrait engravers are represented by Edelinck and Pierre Drevet in their "Jean Andre" and "Andre Rercules" respectively. Prints from the studies of Hogarth, Barlom, and Oadry are also on display...
...engraving in France; Jean Gourmont, "the best representative of the spirit of the German Little Masters transplanted in France"; and portraits by Mellan, Morin, and Nanteuil, the head of the French school of portrait engraving; Antoine Masson, a serious rival of Nanteuil's fame; Edelinck and Pierre Drevet, who in his portraits developed an exaggerated fineness of technique...
...collection of over 200 seventeenth century portrait engravings. The prints show the development during this period and the character of the work of its masters, including, from the Low Countries, Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Vorsterman, and Paul Pontius; and from the French school, Jean Morin, Mellan, Nanteuil, Edelinck, and Drevet...
...works of men who were themselves artists, and many of them are the original designs of the respective engravers. They are strong portraits, full of character, and are comparable in merit to the best portrait art of the Venetian and Flemish masters. Among the names of artists represented are: Drevet, Nauteuil, Duchange, Masson, and Morin...
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