ABSTRACT
Through his Notices and Manuel, Michael Huber proposes a synthesis that had not yet been attempted in the history of engraving articulated according to schools. Despite his reservations about this organisation, he gives a useful idea of the French school. As the defender of classicism, he appreciates what is simple and severe, while as the defender of history painting, he judges with severity what was done from the end of the reign of Louis XIV to the first half of eighteenth century. He explains the causes of the decline that began at the beginning of the century and compares it with the situation in other countries. Huber was undoubtedly the leading expert of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries for the French school.
