FRENCH SCHOOL OF ENGRAVING.. 
* ere execnted with a tolerable degree . brea and 
ed.” 
~ the crofs hte: or hatchings, are — 
of ‘this artift. re 
thofe of a French fchool ; 
und i in our plate of 
alike. 
name at length, and 
feffor Chrift fi 
the art of etching. His _ ve ugh not held in 
highett eftimation, are by no means devoid of mechanical 
merit ; for he handled the pate with much facility, but 
a ape is very defective, - particularly i in the extremities 
his figures. 
ae eee loners figned his works with his baptifmal 
name only, as eee fecit, but more ans peel with a 
cypher compofed o and a B, as feen in our plate. 
He engraved the ene of the erieeahes and poets 
of antiquity in twelve plates gies 5 and feverally thofe of 
Clement Marot, (dated ‘Jean Sebattian fea 
George Vicellus, theclogian, ‘aod himfelf ; dated a 
1 
° 
6. 
Rr principal Seay works are, an emblematical plate 
e Triumph of Virtue, and the Defeat of 
ee ‘¢ Sufanna-and the Elders,” in 4to. 
The plates a work entitled ‘* Livre de la Conquefte 
de la Toifon d’or, par le Prince Jafon de Teffalic.’?: "Thefe 
were defigned oY Leonard Thiri, and are enclofed in orna- 
mental border 
«“ Ha agar bene en vila ad Houfe of Abraham,” a 
Sites etching o of a Ze. Te our Bandits pillaging a 
afant’s Cart,” i: an vetchin «Frangoés premier 
ea 
march fuel au temple de l’Immor tals et laiffe loin derriére 
tui Pignorance, la ftupidité, &e.”’ 
Leonard Gaultier, or Galter, a 
himfelf, is Nase ay the Fr hege 
been a native of France ; but profeffor Chrift, ros with- 
out affigning his ‘on, Suppoles him to have been born in 
Germa n the year 1560, or thereabout. e worke 
ae vith the graver, imitating the ftyles of Crifpin de 
Pafs and the Wierixes. But lie we are a fec 
great number, precifion, and neatnefs of his v »wec 
but lament the ftiffnefs a aa inc oireéinelh ee defign by auch 
Accor rding to the abbé Ma- 
s he fometimes oo 
riters On o have 
Caron, 
ry monogram, wi 
cypher, o 
The litt of his principal engravings i is as 
ee ichool. 
follow 
“ The Loves of Cupid and Pfyche,” after Raffaelle, in’ 
8vo., not engraved from the a ae pictures, but through 
o Veneziano. 
ie . 
The “ Family of oe iv. »? folio. | 
of Henry IV.” folio. The ‘ Coronation of Maria de Mé- 
dicis,” folio; infcribed L. Gaultier, fc. 1610. The « Cy-. 
clopes fo forging Thunder-bolts,”’’ folio.; after Jean Coufen, 
infcribed Léonar Galte fecit, 1 581. «“ A Sacfifice,”’ in the 
antique ftyle, folio; after Martin Freiment. 
apoftles, and evange 
traits: Philippe de Moray, Tord oe "ues. in folio, 
8 
on fines “inferibes his‘ 
at aon 
1611. Alexandre Bouchart, vifcount Bloffeville, folio $ 
_after fone 1613. 0 
Henr 
Moxtrenier, 4to. 
Melchior Tavernier pee an to refide at Paris, where he 
publifhed his wn ia e tl 
1620. er ane 
a of talent as an aa was incon- 
uctions are chiefly portraits and ma aps, 
a and other fubjeéts of minor im- 
portance, fon his own defigns, and from thofe of Danier 
el. 
His principal plate is a oe upright folio, of which the 
fubje& is an equeftrian Rdtue of Henry IV. of aus fu- 
avernier’s "eal 
is 
pericribed “Melchior Taverneir, a Paris, graveur e mpri- 
ur du Roi, pour le ae douces, demeurant Ville du 
alais, fur le quay 
27+ 
of the duke d’Al 
crowned ie laurel, with ae French er in oe 
among t aa 
Huber he oes to confider the boaft of Melchior Tae 
vernier, fan his father Gabriel frit brought to P. iris the 
art 
engraver to a king ; for if ihe ‘fine of the fathers m 
ligi ok 2 vilited on the children, 
alfo be ted, 
Me Ichior rfays, «€ ae was not till 
that Gabriel ees 
may ree 
furely their virtues may 
practifed the art, nor any one who knew iis excellence.”? 
Now be oylee: to the fame writer, ( Huber, ) Melchior 
was born 1560, or thereabout 
engra vings have bee feen b refent writer, nor 
any senate by Melchior or any other of the French 
writers on a 
e ee _— pofterity have awarded to Jean 
— ftand on a far lefs queftionable foundation. 
ontemplating and admiring his father’s maps, he imbi bed an 
irrefiftible defire to travel, and by. fubfequent travellers his 
naine = es ullly celebrated. Sce Judn Baprr ISPE 
AVERN 
an Baptifte 
afterward me himfelf for improvement 
Cort, 2s for a cy nde 
the year 1 went Eto ines at. an ie age, ar et be«~ 
gan engraving, like Hogarth and. Sharp of Ex ngland, by 
rnamenting the ‘graver and fcorper the eee of 
the table, and buckles and other articles of drefs 
under Cornelius 
er peices Alberti. 
te 
clear and firm ftyle.. There 
exeeution, which being rendered tee xifible by the total . 
want 
