Estampes

Debussy's "Estampes" had a multi-layered sound, its three movements like misty vistas composed of washes of watercolor-like transparency more than individual brushstrokes.

In performance: Sara Daneshpour 2010

Crystalline rather than impressionistic in outline, there's a reminder in Estampes that Debussy's classicism was never far below the surface.

Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition; Debussy: Estampes; Liszt, etc 2010

The artists' output was prodigious: there are 363 drawings preserved in the museum of Chantilly, dating from 1510-1550 (primarily Jean's work) and 569 at the Cabinet des Estampes, dating from 1550-1600 (primarily by François's hand, although by the second half of the century minor artists were producing portraits of their own, careful to copy the technique and style popularizedby the Clouets).

Sixteenth Century Facebook Julianne Douglas 2008

The artists' output was prodigious: there are 363 drawings preserved in the museum of Chantilly, dating from 1510-1550 (primarily Jean's work) and 569 at the Cabinet des Estampes, dating from 1550-1600 (primarily by François's hand, although by the second half of the century minor artists were producing portraits of their own, careful to copy the technique and style popularizedby the Clouets).

Archive 2008-07-01 Julianne Douglas 2008

M. de Bauge answered that he could not pay his ransom himself: it depended on M. d 'Estampes his uncle, and Mlle. de Bressure his aunt: he had no means to pay such a ransom.

The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Various

John d'Artois, the earls of Tancarville, of Estampes, of Dammartin, of Graville, and the Lord of Partenay.

Classic French Course in English William Cleaver Wilkinson

Dardel was born at Estampes, and became a Franciscan about the middle of the fourteenth century.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

Prior to the appearance of _Pelléas et Mélisande_, he had put forth, without appreciably disturbing the musical waters, all of the extraordinary and individual music with which his fame is now associated, except the three orchestral "sketches," _La Mer_ (composed in 1903-1905 and published in the latter year), the piano pieces _Estampes_ (1903), and _Images,

Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande A Guide to the Opera with Musical Examples from the Score Lawrence Gilman 1908

He was aware of the violent passion still felt by Henry for Gabrielle d'Estrees, and in order to escape the penalty of his rebellion he offered the hand of his only daughter, with the duchies of Estampes, Penthievre, and Mercoeur as her dowry, to the King's natural son Cesar de Vendome; a proposal which was at once accepted, as the monarch was aware that it would gratify the ambition of his mistress.

The Life of Marie de Medicis Pardoe, Julia 1890

From an engraving in the Cabinet des Estampes of the Bib.

Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World Jules Verne 1866