The thing is, you don’t want pixels, unless you are going to use a tool such as:
Consider, the original was actually linework — it was actually an engraving, done by applying a tool to a material and cutting away at it in lines (or if a copperplate, by using burin to make depressions in a plate) — if we could re-create the motion of the original artist, as to some degree we do with a player piano, we could get a better result, which more closely approximated the original.