FRENCH SCHOOL OF ENGRAVING. 
were inaiaies particularly thofe after the antique flatues 
and relievo 
The word d gen ius, which is applicable to fo — has been 
perhaps too haftily applied to the works of Perrier. With- 
out denying him the merits of facility and pint, we oe 
ftill to learn, in — re ae he ex 
aries of his His ete hings are 
ae heads and heart of his fig 
his facility 1 is not the facility of feeling. 
the aan ee he has left behind the 
thofe great models ; and has given u eae ore than the at- 
titudes and compofitions. But his chiaro-fcuro engravings on 
wood are euticled a m: uch faci praite, and are more 
ee efteemed by connoifieur 
hilft Perrier ae in Teal y» he Italianized his name, 
a the etchings he performed there seers bear the 
fignature of Paria. ae Cat Pau are fan F anda P, 
will be found in our plate of thofe hie: French fchool, 
to which he head added the fae B, denoting that he 
was a native of B ndy. 
numerous engravings, we fhall begin with men- 
tioning ie beft of thofe w hich are after his own pictures and 
dra ewig’ 
“A Holy Family,’”’ or the infant Jefus and St. John, 
rmer 
na and Cone. 
ures are neglected, and 
In his works from 
exquifite precifion of 
ih folio. Flight into Egypt,” in folio. The Holy Fa- 
mily are here reprefented a as paffing a river. “ Chrift with 
the Virgin in a Swoo the Foot of the Crofs,” in folio. 
«St, Roch curing t he Plague,” in folio. “The Body of 
St. Sebaftiana,” in see at length 
Perrier ee Bea inv. 
of the faint 
Francifeus 
fis 
O53 this is pee Se ia 
g ete 
clippin the Win ngs of Love » in fo ie 
ie and isa performance of great merit ; re fs 
ery beft w rorks of the mafter. It is accompanied 
by the illo ring Latin motto : 
<¢ Omnia vincit amor, vincit mox tempus amorem.” 
~ OF the egal which he has engraven from the antique 
{culpture, and compofitions of Italian and Trench painters, 
the following “will robably be efteemed among the 
beft. A fet of the antique flatues sontliar of an hundred 
plates, in folio. 
the bas reliefs of Italy, 7 folio. h 
nefe gallery, ten plates. “The ‘Asfembly Bee he a aad 
the Nuptials of Cupid. and Pfyche,”’ a pair of the frieze form, 
after Raphael. 
middle-fized upright iam from arracci. ‘The 
ee = efus Chrifl,’”? from S. Vou , folio. ers OF 
Simon Vonuet, farzounded by an "Fitorical border, in 
folio; dated 163 
Guillaume | Perrier, (the younges) ‘who died in 1655, 
was alfo born at Maco Ons and is ofed to have been the 
qousees poe of Franci cis, from w sce defig gns he executed 
feveral plates, imitating his ftyle of etching, but with no 
great mer efs. 
uguftin a ( = Strutt imiftakenly calls by the 
me of Antoine, ) was born at Paris in the year 1592, and 
was ras living in a time of Ge abbé Marolles, but the year of his . 
-IIe etche . his plates _ a broad and - 
death i is not ae 
them with the e gra 
nifhed er; 
eonfequently a ean firmnefs ne facility in Pe ftyle, yet 
the heads and extremities of his figures are fomewhat heavy, 
and his outlines hard and incorre&t. His principal works 
are, twelve plates from. ‘thofe pictures of Primaticcio, which 
beft 
Another fet ae of fif ag! Ria : “ 
“'The lafi Communion of St. eee a: 
there is: the 
are in the chapel of the palace de Flenry at Fontainbleaw, 
cA le pata «* Cha- 
rity,” anchar e ing St. 
eet relieved by Women,” from the fame anes and 
alfo 
e moreover engraved fome few plates from. oo n, M. 
A. Carrava ne and other mafters, on which his monogram 
appears, for which fee our ear of the nes Wee, of he 
iad of the French {choo 
Jean ourbes was alfo a native of France, and bor 
about the tae time mh A. Garnier. Heer ngraved c chely 
for the bookdellers. - His works are little known or noticed, 
and do not defer ticed more. 
At one period of his life he was in England, and engraved 
here the portraits of fir Philip Sydney, and the countefs of 
Pembr oke, which are infcribed J. de Courbes fecit. 
that 
gla The pre- 
fent writer is spay to doubt the fact, and ities on ace 
count of the poetry which is ae aved beneath thefe por+ 
traits, being i n the French langua 
The verfes under that of fir Philip are as follow: 
“Sidney, dont voicy le vifag 
Scent foindre « également les armes i les arts, 
us les deux en ufage, 
Sur le ae Apollon, et dans le ‘champ de Mars,* 
and are fcarcely lefs complimentary under the portrait of the 
countefs : . 
“ Pallas puruft Lye en Grece, 
Comme la beauté que tu vois, 
e feule aoe de c cette Dieffe 
cee. te vifage 
Claude Vignon praGtifed ne painting and etching. He 
was born at Tours in the year 1590, and died in 1676.. 
He ftudied a long time in Italy, imitating at firft the ftyle 
of Michel Angelo Carravaggio, and with fome fucectes but. 
is ‘afterwards fell into a manner of his own, more expeditious, 
but rough and unfinifhed. 
his etchings; Meri difplay the hand and mind ea 
matter, the abbé s pofleffed two hundred and feven. 
teen, of wlich the ilo may be numbered among the: 
A fet of thirteen from the life of Chrift, in fmall- quarto. 
“St. John in the Defert.”? “St. Philip baptizing the Eu- 
nuch of Queen n Candace.” “The Martyrdom of n- 
drew.”? “The mreageee and Coronation of the Virgin,’ 
inforibed Cl. Vignon inv. 
aques Ca ot was born "i Nancy, whilf Lorraine was yet 
an independent dukedom. He is by fome-authors reckoned’ 
among the engravers of ing French ichool, but as he , 
¢ Rowers nd at Florence, and exercifed his art chiefly at the 
ine city, his biography and wor ile will be found in our ac- 
count of the Italian fehool of engravers. 
Claude Audran is the patriarch of that family who: 
created an era-in ae and is therefore entitled to re-. 
was th is: Audran, an officer belonging to the 
Wo a ae hunter a in the + eign of Henry IV. and was born: 
at Paris A.D He did not take up the graver till 
rather aed in life, and produced ie yu prints, but he was 
of Germain and Ger ran. From Paris: 
he ican to Lyons,. a died: fier in - ae r 1677, 
Carl or Karl Audran was alfo the fon 
born in -Paris, A.D. 1594: 
engraving, and- learned the ufe of his tools in his native 
country, 
