Boucher : étude contenant quatre dessins gravés à l'eau-forte
A critical study by the Goncourt brothers, published in Paris by E. Dentu in 1862, on the painter François Boucher, with etchings after his drawings. Its plates are fine etchings in soft, feathery line showing elegant figures in 18th-century dress, mythological nymphs and cherubs in woodland, and a flourishing ornamental border. A designer could take from them the loose, sketchy hatching that suggests light and fabric without outlining, and the scrolling foliate band as a decorative strip.
