THE DOORWAY. VENICE
James McNeill Whistler
LE PETIT PONT
Charles Meryon
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As we survey the reproductive processes, they are drawn, one and all, into the current of new, original expression. Innovators appear even in the conservative camp of engraving; Ferdinand Gaillard, for instance, an engraver, in that he uses the graver, though he uses it in a manner to him particular, expressive of minutest detail. “My aim,” he says, “is not to charm but to be truthful. My art consists in saying all.” And he expresses “all” in this wonderful portrait of Dom Prosper Guéranger. No detail has escaped him in his scrutiny of this strong, bright face with its searching, clear eyes. A counterpart of Gaillard—a painter-engraver similarly minute and precise with his burin—is Stauffer-Bern, a Swiss of German training.
DOM PROSPER GUÉRANGER