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Show people was Ostade. He traced more definitely th detailsof their doings. Butdifferentashis viewpoin was, the presentationwaseffected withthatmixtur of balance, discrimination and sympathy whic must appear in art that is fully worth our while One of the largestand best plates by his pupil Beg remained unfinished. Itsomehow characteristical1y represents this artist, who seems never quite t have completed his course; he never quite arrive as did his master Teniers and Dusart mark the transition toward men such as Van Vliet, with his valuable picture of workersat varioustrades. He wasacapable craftsman but he produced pictorial documents rathe than worlks of art. However, he did his part in picturing the social life of Holland With Callot an entirely different racial and indiv idual viewpoint is opened. His depiction of the Miseries of War is an invaluable historical document asare the views of the Paris of his time. With hi achievement is linked in the memory the lighte grace of Della Bella. There comes tomind also Boss who, in his precise, burin-aided lines has carefull recorded for us the waysand surroundings of malsers, printersandsellersof etchingsand engravingsi his day. And memory travels on also to Boissieu i eighteenth century France. Aboutacentury and half afterCallot,etchinginFranceenteredlargelyintothe productionof thoseengraved platesin whic Digital image© 2005 |
