2 58 Prefcnl Slctc of the Jrf of Paincing in Frcvce. 



jatidet, an able iapdscape painter, is dead. In his trees 

 we obgerv^i tliat lie studied nature much, and that he studied 

 her with good effect. No man can paint a head better than 

 Wallin ; it is a pity he has not studied nature ; his incor- 

 rectness, perhaps, would have been less. The t'>vo Ozanes 

 are excellent at designing sea pieces : one of theni has en- 

 graved a great deal, and has done it well. They are ac- 

 quainted with the forms of vessels, and they give them in 

 an agreeable manner. Eero;evin designs very vvell with the 

 pen, and composes bas reliefs with facility. Mistback gave 

 great hopes. ETe designed land:jcape well, and executed with 

 care the details of architecture. He was a pupil of Belanger. 

 The journey he made with M. Bianco de Brant in the south 

 of France did hiin great service. He diid last year. 



Percier, the archiiect, has made some fine designs in 

 wafer colours, consisting of antique and architectural sub- 

 jects : he has an exquisite taste for furniture. 



Baltard, the architect, favourably known by several works, 

 designs architecture and landscape extremely well. 



Bertaii.x, who has been d.stinguiihed generally by the 

 name of ihe modern Callot, designs with an astonishing fa- 

 cility. I have seen, with very great pleasure, his pen and 

 ink design of the Cattle of Austerlitz, which he is engrav- 

 ing for placing below the portrait of the French emperor. 



Pillement junior, whom I ought to call the first landscape 

 engraver, designs perfectly well this kind of drawing. 



Several sculptors are diitinguished for their designs. The 

 name of Moitle has been for a long time favourably known 

 among the amateurs of designs : a great deal has been en- 

 graved after him. Mis dc^igns are well composed and well 

 conceived. Tannay, the sculptor, his pupil, has not made 

 manv designs, but they are very fine ones. I possess two 

 of them ; one representing Chm-on, to whom Mercury has 

 Jelirered the Shades of thos'; who are to pass the Styx: all 

 seem desirous of returning : the small heads are full of ex- 

 pression ; the composition is agreeable, and the Mercury is 

 of an astonishing lightness. 'Ihe other is Time extinguisk- 

 ing the Tmch of IjJve. Otie of the first painters said it was 

 worthy of Julio Romano; I have therefore nothing to add. 



Boichot 



