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Post by Bownarrow on Oct 16, 2021 5:05:46 GMT -5
In his book "The Miniature in Europe in the 16th , 17th, 18th & 19th Centuries", Leo Schidlof states that Bernard Picart, best known as an engraver, was also a miniaturist. www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_U-8-21Bernard Picart did an engraving of Poussin's "Shepherds of Arcadia". Since this image is a reversed version of the painting, it may have been used as the model for the reversed version of the painting used for the Shugborough Monument.
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Post by rubyfelixir on May 23, 2022 7:40:22 GMT -5
Bernard Picart was a portrait miniaturist. 'As small in size as 40 mm × 30 mm, 'portrait miniatures' were often fitted into lockets, inside watch-covers or pieces of jewellery, so that they could be carried on the person.'. B. Picart also did his own portrait in miniature, which was so small that it was able to be set in a ring. Was B. Picart's engraving of N. Poussin's painting, a miniature? Was Fr. Sauniere's proposed copy of N. Poussin's painting, a miniature? I can see it in my mind's eye, hanging on the wall inside the presbytery, Fr. Sauniere looking at it through a loupe. Easy to lose it.
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