Word: mellan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Included in the work of the earlier masters are prints by Jean Duvet, one of the first to practise the art of 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...
...being shown in the Print Room of the Fogg Art Museum an exhibition of French prints covering the period from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. There are examples of engraving by Duvet; etchings by Callot, Claude Lorrain, Gaspar Poussin; engraved portraits of the seventeenth century by Mellan, Nanteuil, Edelinck, Masson, Morin, etchings by Watteau, Millet, Lalanne, Corot, Lepere; and lithographs by Daumier, Delacroix, Isabey, and Gavarni...