DOI Heft:
No. 200 (November, 200)
DOI Artikel:Frantz, Henri: The etchings of Jean Francois Raffaelli
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20968#0143
The Etchings of J. F. Raffaelli
by no means infrequently
met with in the history of
art. A long list could in-
deed be given of artists
who have wielded with
equal perfection the brush
and the burin, but to give
such a list would be a
puerility of which I have
no intention of being guilty
now. Again, Raffaelli's
activity as an etcher is on
a par with his activity as a
painter. He does not, as
some others do, devote
himself during certain years
exclusively to etching,
during others again entirely
to painting. No ! he keeps
both brush and needle to
the front, treats the same "les grands arbres" by j. f. raffaelli
subject in both techniques,
and, better still, uses the
one to profit him in the use of the other. So we fully worked and finely finished plate in colours,
find this rough sketch in oils or chalks brushed in and this figure, so assiduously drawn with the
in a few seconds before nature will afford him, needle, will mayhap find a place in the composition
very happily, the motif to? the execution of a care- of one of his important paintings. One is not,
'la jmadeleine" by j. f. raffaelli
121
by no means infrequently
met with in the history of
art. A long list could in-
deed be given of artists
who have wielded with
equal perfection the brush
and the burin, but to give
such a list would be a
puerility of which I have
no intention of being guilty
now. Again, Raffaelli's
activity as an etcher is on
a par with his activity as a
painter. He does not, as
some others do, devote
himself during certain years
exclusively to etching,
during others again entirely
to painting. No ! he keeps
both brush and needle to
the front, treats the same "les grands arbres" by j. f. raffaelli
subject in both techniques,
and, better still, uses the
one to profit him in the use of the other. So we fully worked and finely finished plate in colours,
find this rough sketch in oils or chalks brushed in and this figure, so assiduously drawn with the
in a few seconds before nature will afford him, needle, will mayhap find a place in the composition
very happily, the motif to? the execution of a care- of one of his important paintings. One is not,
'la jmadeleine" by j. f. raffaelli
121