RUPRECHT von der Pfalz, Prinz ( 1619-1682 )
Comte palatin du Rhin, duc de Bavière et duc de Cumberland, le Prince Ruprecht développe la technique de la manière noire avec Ludwig von Siegen.
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[…] we did therefore forbear to mention what his Highness Prince Ruperts own hands have contributed to the dignity of that Art ; performing things in Graving (of which some enrich our collection) comparable to the greatest Masters ; such a spirit and address there appears in all that touches, and especialy in that of the Mezzo Tinto, of which we shall speak here-after more at large, having first enumerated those incomparable gravings of that his new, inimitable Stile, in both the great, and little decollations of St. John Baptist, the Souldier holding a Spear and leaning his hand on a Shield, the two Mary Magdalens, the Old- mans head, that of Titian, &c. after the same Titian, Georgioon and others.
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[...] I did not think it necessary that an Art [n.d.r. : Mezzo Tinto] so curious, and (as yet) so little vulgar (and which indeed does not succeed where the Workman is not an accomplished Designer, and has a competent talent in painting likewise) was to be prostituted at so cheap a rate, as the more naked describing of it here, would too soon have expos’d it to. [...]
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[…] we did therefore forbear to mention what his Highness Prince Ruperts own hands have contributed to the dignity of that Art ; performing things in Graving (of which some enrich our collection) comparable to the greatest Masters ; such a spirit and address there appears in all that touches, and especialy in that of the Mezzo Tinto, of which we shall speak here-after more at large, having first enumerated those incomparable gravings of that his new, inimitable Stile, in both the great, and little decollations of St. John Baptist, the Souldier holding a Spear and leaning his hand on a Shield, the two Mary Magdalens, the Old- mans head, that of Titian, &c. after the same Titian, Georgioon and others.