FRENCH SCHOOL OF ENGRAVING. 
xtremely rare. In the year 1553 he produced “ Les 
Médailles pour oe ae a des Antiquités de Jacques Strada. 
ieee ee yon 
OF th apne vings = y this mafter, the firft of “the 
French foal that is worthy to be fo termed, the following 
ncipal. “ Les Metamorphofes d’Ovide,”’ imprimé a 
4. The prints to “ L’ane d’or d’ Apulée,”’ imn- 
rimé a nig58. “ The eae Vigne toa 
French. Se aeiai of Virgil’s Eneid,”’ i Lyon 
O. n Livre de Thermes au nontr re - ‘dix-huit,” im im- 
“ as — of Pfyche in thirty- 
- Twen o prints of decorations of 
ntin 
7 7B ue frit "French landicape ae ete 
«A triumphal Chariot with Arm Head, 
with a triple Face Geo by Che eubinae » > and the 
ornaments (in ovals) to a book of hymns, printed alfo at 
oF 
Step shanus de Laulne was born at Orleans in the year 1520, 
far greater part of 
‘being in soiree fall, he i is wclafled = colledtors among 
* the little mafter 
et ale was a man : confiderable inventive powers, 
abound with figures which are 
art 
more defective tha 
The abbé “Marolles pel tlie hundred and eighteen 
engravings by this i of which. the following will pro- 
‘ably be found ie es plac i 
to his works, only Stephanus fecit. 
eg ot 
* David bee Goliah,”’ ‘ The Matlac cre Pe the Inno- 
eents,”’ “ The Mar tyrdom of St. Felicité,”’ “The Rape o 
Helena,”? “ Alexander commanding the Boo $ Aas Homer 
to be fhut-up in the Cheft of Darius.” The above are all 
eopied from Mark Antonio. “The Serpént of Aaron,” 
painted for the Cordeliers of Sens, after Jean Couflin. This 
is in folio, and is probably the largeft print from the hand 
of this mafter. “ The Hippodamia,”’ after Roffo. 
patie: are engraved from his own defigns. A fet of 
jects from the hiftory of the Old Teftament. 
ae tes a heathen ce viz. Jupiter, Nep 
A fet of fix ane 
and oat effes. “A Tee eighteen mytho- 
fet of four from ancient hiftory,: in A fet of four 
rural occupations, in ovals. ‘The three Graces, infcribed Sic 
of introdueing the art of engra 
The French se on the fae aos fay, that he was born 
fome time about the year 1520, and that prefumptively, 
judging . from ] ae name ; he _ pee birt ‘renchman, 
Vi r i trifling th matters but little. He 
was oi education egobabl a getiith and from the. Gotho- ., 
A fet of twelve, the months of the . 
much to 
Gonna them with regard to, the comptes, bs se 
are 
german ftyle of his engravings, it may reaforiably he 
jeQtured that he ie, what he - fs of ieee : rt, unde B 
fome oe amar oe engraver. After ftating, sal 
“his wor dtl ececne ? Strutt m 
tions a Galle t between naked men, “af 
whom there are feveral, in w hich i. feems to have made 
feeble attempt at copying the fty le of Sebald Beham. The 
only other engravings that are known to be from the hand 
of Noel Garnier, are forty-e eight p s reprefenti e 
arts and trades, and an alphabet of a letters ornament- 
ed with £gures and foliage. His ngular mar 
ark will be 
found in our plate of monograms, &c. of the French Yehook, 
Pierre Voeiriot, or Wociriot, engrave ed both on copper 
and on 7 and was alfo a goldfmith. He was born at 
Bar-le- orraine, in the year 1525, ae eftablithed 
himfelf a as. a ela and panel at Lyons. His prints, 
of which there are as many from wood as from copper, are 
chiefly after his own defigns, and are tolera se weep ex ecuted, 
meee the general {tate of French art at the time 
is fill extant a curious book adorned ann snntaie 
is artitt, entitled *¢ Pinax x Jeo onicus An- 
ed t ig 
and Pa pillon adds, that" he 
marked 7 de ieee on wood with the on of double crofs, 
which w te of the monograms and ee 
ufed i re agen engraver, and which is called “la 
petite Croix de Lor 
Struit places the bir h a this artift in 1510, but ine not. 
cite his authority. His principal Be ge are as follow. 
«© The Sacrifice of Abraham,” in f ofes fave 
the Waters,”’ in folio. « Phalaris nt t up in the brazen een 
a {mall uprig Woman wit ildren in her Arm 
cafting hetelt o on.a funeral Pile.” Tk wo = Tandlapes, i in 
which are introduced a great number of. figu In o 
reprefented a funera os in the hills twe ned men 
are fighting on the fum of a funeral Ne: three 
latter probably belong . ce book whic chi ism d above 
of fepulchral rites. « "The Battle of Conia with Ma axen~ 
pags = oe in folio. The above are all en ngraven 
cop: I 
ury é te 
ee aud French ver eqina ag with ne ae 
ouplet: , 
“ Qui veiut pour fon pais combattre 4 tous alarmes 
Doit avoir de Mercure et de Pallas les armes.’” 
Jacques Perifin, sip ial Rare otherwife ia 
was born i in France fome time’ about the 1530. In“ 
ing to Strutt, others on w 
on copper are flightly ns d,’” ie bs is bisoetl . remark, 
is firft time we met with ord ‘in ory of 
tant engraving. though ane had now rae favented 
near half a century: “ the oo are in a coar i incor 
rect ftyle, nor have the impreffio res 
