We have a number of fine interpretative etchings after the Old Masters, mostly from sought-after art reviews such as the Gazette des Beaux-Arts or Die Graphischen Kunste. The art of one artist interpreting the painting of another in a black-and-white etching is now a lost one, but in the nineteenth century many artists earned their bread-and-butter producing etched versions of work by the Old Masters and by their revered contemporaries; many of these interpretative etchings are astoundingly subtle works of art in their own right. For the sake of simplicity, we include in Old Masters all artists from the Renaissance through to the French Neoclassicists such as Ingres and David.