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country, buftafterward travelled to Rome for improvement, 
when he produced pt ral prints that obtained him deferved 
t his return adopted that {pecies of en 
g whic ven the graver ay imitating 
the alae of Create Bloema 
h he imitated Bloemart » he 
meee chong perhaps the prints of Lucas 
the Sadelers, may have been the, real 
aimed at {uperior 
Kilian, and thofe 
foundation of his 
a from Italy he- fettled at Pats, where he 
r 1674, without. having ever been ma arried, 
wrote his n . Karle 
The abbé Marole, who fpeaks of this artift with great | 
raife 94 ttributes an hundred and thirty prints to him. The 
following | probably be found to include the beit of his 
orks, 
he portrait of Henry de Bourbon attended by the 
cardinal ‘virtues, an oval, in folio, marked XK Audran fe. 
7 : 
ae allegorical fubject, including 
of Nicolai de Nentville, marquis of Villercy, 
A genius is reprefented as paint- 
ing a aie aie and on the palette is written “ Unus 
ex do fn ie _ 
frontifpiece to 
n 
o da Cortona. 
n folio, an with ; ans 
of that eveue in the life of the original, on which her celebri- 
caer pees i 
plate, engraved from t itur: arracci 
in the cathedral at Bologna, but ally pee ree upon 
the plate itfelf, to Annibal. Strutt, who {peaks of it as 
being oné of the beft works of this engraver = fallen into 
this error. The “ Baptifm of our Lord,’ mall oval, 
after Annibal Carracci, without the names of i artis, 
sé St. Francois « de Paulo, i in folio, after Melini, m rked Car 
f St. Stephen,”’ in folio, after 
e. Seigneur: lio, afte 
gD avid ee introduced reco ording fomethi ng on 
2 tablet. « St: Catherine devant la Sainte Famille,”’ in folio, 
after the fame, a “beautiful pie in, which feveral angels are 
introduced. “ The Holy. mily,” i in folio, after ‘Titian, 
an excellént work, It ma 
merous compolitions on this inexhauitib 
following circumflances, lirgi ceiving an 
‘apple from the infant St. John, St. Catherine is kneeling, 
c ound is a landfcape’ with thepherds and. 
efus,’’ who. is tram- 
cis. ie) at dpiece to 
os Fea neifei reer Pirilini, “ Ord, 
olding the Port it of Cardinal Magari.. « if mption 
de la Vierge,?? j in ay after Dominichino, It is.in a ae 
$ prints with the letter 
a is a reprefentation 
Minor, "Thaumatur- 
; me in folio, ae the fame matter. The fubj ectisa oe Sec 
¥ 
OF ENGRAVING. 
a fhort oval, is infcribed Regine Triumphant, ang 
cftecined one of the beft cee of Car 
el Lafne was born at Caen in. oe yer I cee, but 
ices chiefly at Paris, where he died in 1667. He work- 
ed entirely with the gra andled that rae mam in 
a bold, open ftyle, { fomewhat eee ane that of Bloema 
though Mr. Strutt believe chofe Millen for 
his medel. His execution is arn and his. drawing, efpecial- 
the-extremities, fomewhat heavy. Lafne was induf- 
trious in his profeffion, and, saat . the abbé Marol- 
les, the number of his engravings am to er oe sae 
dred. He fometimes marked his prints with 
lengthy and at others with the cypher, which. will Found 
in our plate of the monog grams, &c. of the French fchool of 
engraving. he bef vis works are enumerated below, 
beginning ioe thofe fio his own mae offtioni 
a8) 
n Garcon Err inqua i cane ie de Payfans 
en bonne eae: in ae "a Vier erge,”” ith the infant 
Saviour fleeping under a tree, in folio.. «A dead Chrift 
sourned by the Magdalen,?? in folio, dedicated ta 
lewis XIII. and dated 1641. “ Bellerophon monté fur 
Pegafe combat le Cheymere,”’ in foli 
al, afier various Bers 66 oo . after 
, 2. 
receiving t t Ch _ ae the Vir rgin Mary,” an 
upright ‘ay ae R uben is plate isexecuted in a 
mu ch n manner that ‘his ree engravings, but bears 
the name of. De Lafne. 
“¢ St. Francis de Paul receiving the Infant Chrift from the 
Hands of the Virgin,” from ame painter. “ La 
Vifitation de St. Elizabeth,’? in ue after L. Carracci, 
but falfely attributed to Annnibal. «“ La Vierge, et PEn. 
fant qui dor,”’ 
bal Carracci. 
Silence.” 
Virgin holding up h ae nger r 
has been fubfequently eed es Pice 
and by Bartolozzi. ‘ Ecce Homo,” in 1 Folio after Titian. 
*¢ Jefus Chrift dans fa Gloire,” i in ar after Paul ae 
he Saviour is here accompanied by St. Peter and St. Paul 
“ Fae ne Virgin feated on a Crefcent,”’ an oval, in folio,. after 
in ae afer a eee picture of Anni- 
_ 
. Tac alfo engraved the following portraits, chiefly ates 
his own drawings 
ichel Afénus, Sculptor ae in foli 0. 
XIII. on Pasa proclaime 
duc de la Valette, alfo on horfeback, it its In 
the beeen of the former is reprefented the battle of 
Veillance, and. i in that of the lat 
both . 
Louis 
e, en oe 
nn A 
in. el robes; folio. 
folio. Julius cardinal of Maz 
ro e olas- : 
the French parliament, folio. Francis Fernandez, a friar 
of the order.of St. Francis. Le pere Jofeph de P a 
famous capuchin, folio. Louis Petit,.General of ‘the or- 
- der of Trinity, folio, an Francois, Mieron, a monk and 
celebrated es ae ae 3; in folio, very rare.: . roZ= 
zi, the. Venet quarto, . = Simon Vouet, dated 
1627.. Jean Charles Doria, quarto. . -Francois -Queftrel, 
firt painter to Henry III.,. from a . pidture by. himfelf ; 
quarto. Le pere Nicisles Couffin, folio, 1651. 
Nicholas 
