French Illustrated Books

Download or read book French Illustrated Books written by Firm Pearson and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from French Illustrated Books: Of the Eighteenth Century "The Illustrated Book attained pre-eminence in France about the middle of the eighteenth century. This fact is due to the subtle and refined art of a whole series of petits maitres (wonderful interpreters of French taste), admirably seconded by a veritable phalanx of skilful engravers from the school of Cars, Lebas, Basan, Wille, and Gravelot. The last-named had visited England (where he illustrated Shakespeare) and knew how to pose his diminutive figures effectively. "Eisen, a Parisian to his finger-tips, though of Flemish origin, possessed a pencil of seductive loveliness; Cochin forsook his ambitious designs of Fetes to devote his time to the adornment of books; Moreau, the younger, was perhaps the most expert of all in knowledge and certainty of execution, and Marillier inimitable in the vignette. Boucher, Choffard, Monnet, Freudeberg, Queverdo, and many others also created masterpieces of elegance." 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."