This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ...Perhaps one of Janinet's richest achievements in the matter of tone is Les Trois Graces (Plate IX.), after Antonio Pellegrini, a Venetian painter who made some reputation in Paris as a decorative artist, and then came to England in that capacity. This print was done probably from four plates, with raw umber, rosemadder ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ...Perhaps one of Janinet's richest achievements in the matter of tone is Les Trois Graces (Plate IX.), after Antonio Pellegrini, a Venetian painter who made some reputation in Paris as a decorative artist, and then came to England in that capacity. This print was done probably from four plates, with raw umber, rosemadder, blue and black, composing tones of quite Italian warmth, though Pellegrini's colouring is reputed to have been somewhat superficial. In the Louvre there is an "Allegorie" of his, representing Modesty offering Pellegrini's picture to the Academy. Among Janinet's earlier essays in colour-engraving are the two dainty little prints after Honore Fragonard, UAmour (Plate X.) and La Folie (Plate XL), done in 1777, two of the most highly prized of all the colour-prints of the period, and exceedingly costly on the rare occasions when they are purchaseable. Of a trifling grace in design, they have, with their warm yet delicate tints, that inexpressible mystery of charm which is of the very essence of Fragonard, and this, one feels, Janinet must have transferred with magic felicity to his copper-plates. If only he had given us more of Fragonard! One can imagine what a much more delightful colour-print he would have made, with his harmonious tones, of the pretty La Fuite a dessein, a girl provocatively escaping from a pursuing lover in a garden--a Fragonard garden. The lineengraving by Macret and Couche is charming, but in the rare state printed in colours it becomes tantalizingly thin; one wants the colour in tone-surfaces, not in lines. It is strange to turn from the unsubstantial charm and elusive exquisiteness of Fragonard to the stately solidity of a seventeenth-century portrait-painter, but Janinet did not feel bound ...
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