want of effect in his prints, gives them a harfh unfinifhed 
His was is rather mannered, than abfo- 
lutely incorrect. 
¥ in died at Rom an advanced age, where he 
honour (ford fo it fhould be efteemed) of inftructing 
Callo tin the u e graver; but a handfome lady whom 
Thomaffin had ee and of whom he was jealous, was 
his tutorage. ee confit of more than . ce) 
hundred plates, of which t = tubjets fifty-two ar 
Italian antique ftatues. t a a rncipal me 
«¢ Philippe Emanuel de Lor raine e, ry’ 
folio, dated 1595. * Jefus Chrift a aa ae ee files,” Ame 
Raffaelle, on fourteen folio plates. Saint Mar — 
poling Palm in her Hand, with her Foot on the V 
a Dragon,” from Raffaele, i in folio, 1589. ‘ Saint Cotta, 
in folio, 1637. 
as 
and St. Pau ge soaked 
“ Sarafin landing at the port of Oltia,’”’ from Raffaelle. 
66 ae mily,’’ after F. Zucchero, in. folio. “The Ado- 
ration of the Kings,’’ after F. Zucchero; a large plate, 
er 
upright in si and arched a the top. “ Miracle of Jefus 
t Cana,” from F. Zucchero, folio. “ The Nativity,” 
from Ventana Salembini. =“ Th ne Purification of the Vir- 
gin,”’ from Barroccio. «’The Four Martyrs,”’ ie B. Paf- 
fri, in folio. The Laft Judgment,” from F. Vanoi, 
folio. « Allegor t nption.”? Here the virgin 
3s feen in the clouds interceding for the patriarchs; fro1 
Vafari, folio. llo w the Mufes dancing around 
him,’’ from adn Peruzzi; a large print, in the form 
i n two Seyi and dated 1615. T 
at le a Es . 
Thomas de Len was born at Paris fometime about the 
co. He 
year 15 worked entirely with the graver, haus he 
handled with a care. His ftyle is neat and mechanically 
clear, refembling that of the Wierixes; and his » con- 
re 
2) 
fift chiefly of portraits of the celebrated charaéter C 
time, of which feveral are engraved after his own ee awings, 
and ' reft from the pictures: of Bunel, Caron, Rubel, and 
uen 
“OF: a hiftorical works, which amount but to. very fis 
eye. 
FRENCH SCHOOL OF: ENGRAVING. 
Francifcus Ranchinus, profeffor medicusy 
dicis, princefs of "Florence, 2 
the lait of which, in the opinion of Sas is a fine feck 
men of his ability in aa engraving. 
are ae | infcribed either 
eu Af et 
s Bufinck was Tone in Fran nce toward the clofe of the 
ry; ractifed that mode of engraving on 
wood which had been ae almeft a century before by 
Mair, or by Hugo da Carpi, and was technically termed 
engraving in cbiarofeuro Three blocks cf wood are fuccef- 
fively imy onevery print produced in this manner. The 
firft for the ea the fecond fer the deeper ey and 
the third fo emi-tint. See Woop Exacravinx 
ce) 
Bufinck ‘pradtifed this mode of art with ee ae fuc- 
cefs. He »robably learned it in Germany, for we find him, 
according to Heinnekin, engraving at Minden, about the 
year 1636, in concert with George L’ Allemand. 
His ityle © apg ee is broad, bold, maiterly, and in 
all betper's a to of his coadjutor. 
adds, that before eee ieee ris” 
cuted the following fabees s fro 
« Fidelity,’? an ” allegorical ptce 
A Man, half-leagth, 1630, fol 
1630, A Peafant with a lee 
ing a be 
AC : 
Another Peafant carr y- 
“ Mofes fitting ins the Tables oF 
“A hy Lh ae wit paler in his 
at playing i es neas refcuing his 
ee Anchifes and his "Family ee the ae of 'Troy,’™ 
an upright, in folio. 
L’ Allemand, the Ss of Bufinck, was alfo a native cf 
France, and, accord ing to abbé Marolles, was born at Nancy. 
Papillon, from the information cf his 
refided at Pari ee he expende 
in sonftructi ae ” prefies and other machin his own _ 
vention, for printing chiaro-fcuro ene on wood, 
much impaired his circumftances. "To which Strutt a. 
that he made a great number of ave to be engraved ii 
ome a many of which he e engraved with his own ana : 
one fees 
by ange the en how oeaagl they are done, his 
Twelve Sybils,” sa by = se “he Life t aut of fuccefs is not furpriz 
Francis,’ in twenty-lrve plates; and Juftice rewarding Francois Perrier was; pees = “Macon | in Burgundy; in the 
the Labours of the Huiban dman,” from Frederic Zuc: year 1590, and died at Paris in 1660. e. painted and 
caro. His eee portraits are of the foll ow ng re fon- engraved in chiaro-{curo, and alfo per formed f. ~me etchings 
ages z,, en al ae ae what saaeae - ais firft rudi- 
‘of yas at the age ie nine, 
rm iil. 
Hefty ‘de Bour bon, prince 
dated 1595. Célart Monfieur, er five 
and, 
Charles 
Francois de Bourbon, nn de Co 
di uke of Lo ane admiral de, France. Frane ois de B 
oe de cada ée he ma- 
e Lorraine, “duke of 
duke of <p and of Genevois. Henri cae Mon mo- 
rency, couftable of France, Louile de Budos, the fpoufe 
of ‘the former. Louife de Lorraine, dowager 0 France. 
Louis Serven, advcocate-general. Jean Patlerat, a learned 
moan n and a Poets reprefented in profile. = having loft 
ments of art is not kno ae ome early 
n life, vere though Te ‘Sabfifted: ith “fealty, he 
faded hard. His drawings from the antique ftatues and 
baffo a recommended him to the notice of Giovanno 
Lanfranco ; and under the direction of that admirable artift 
he perfued his itudies with better a a and more 
uccels. 
After a long ftay at t Ro me, he returned to his native 
rn ee painted at Lyons the little cn of the 
Chartreufe; going from thence to Paris, he there engaged 
himfelf with Simon Vouet ; and his reputation continue d to 
ae 
163 35 Perrier returned to Italy ; ; and it was 
during | his ere abode in that come that his beft etchings 
Were 
