Ars Nigra. La gravure en manière noire aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Peinture Sabine Fourrier and Alexandre Rabot

Sabine Fourrier and Alexandre Rabot

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Acta Orientalia 42

the artist

Mariette-Pacha

Ars Nigra. La gravure en manière noire aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Peinture Sabine Fourrier and Alexandre RabotThe technique of mezzotint engraving is said to have originated around 1640 from the bucolic but unusual conjunction of a soldier and the morning dew. The story goes that, while inspecting the guard posts at dawn, the German prince Ruprecht von der Pfalz found one of the sentries scraping the barrel of his rifle, which had been oxidized by the dew. Observing the rust speckled, half polished metal, he thought he saw figures. This was all it took for