FRENCH SCHOOL 
Rees ‘Chaperon was born at Chateaudun about the 
1506 ; 
a Vou 
‘his oe chiefly neers 
ment, he was induce 
during which he produc 
d prints from thofe Aa 
‘by Raphael, inthe Vatican, ane 
e called his did/e. The °y 
prefent writer has not 
Cc 
: he works of that celebrated ial are 
totally loft in the affe€ted manner of the en grave 
-heads are very — in general, and the cther ee 
‘ties very poorly mar 
e, Chaperon eftablifhed himfclf at 
-addition of the letter F for fec mong t 
ing will be found worthy of i ea on account of their 
merits ; 
’ The portrait of himfelf at the foot of the buft of Raphael, 
in folio. This is generally pretixed to the ee mentioned 
above, and ferves as - title-page or a 
Portrait of Henry IV. of France, at 
very ra 
eg nceas of the fame monarch, at ies ge of 
forty-four, beneath which a battle is reprefented in de ve 
manner as in ease 
“Une Vierge scuni iant V Enfant Jefus en lut prefentant 
le a in fo, a a his own compoiition, as is fuppofed 
by Roft and Huber, though ea a name of ‘Titian. 
Yet itis difficult to believe at C , Or any man would 
have expofed himfelf to the clean of fuch frequent 
“enquiries after the original’as muft be the neceffary confe~ 
‘quence of a Cad Sl of this nature. 
« An y Family,” in folio, where the virgin mother 
is fuckling che infant Chrift. << L?Alliance de Bacchus et 
Venus,” in folio; dated 1659. * wert a quiun Homme 
prefente a boire,’’ folio.  « us accompagne d’un 
Flomme qui po orte un Enfant,”’ folio. “ Famille de Sa- 
tyres,’? a {mall upright folio. This is a bold and ipited i 
‘etching, and one of the beft works of the mafter. “ Bac 
in folio. Another Bacchanalian fubjed, elec Silenus is 
introduced, mounted o he gost, 2 in folio. nother, 
yeas oung Bacchante is mounte fhe goat, in ar 
eine. He 
was caine y with Chaperon, ae like him eftablifhed 
-himfelf es Paris, after travelling to Italy for profeffional im- 
provem e executed a confiderable number of flight 
{pirited ane _ ee him to have been an artift of 
fertile and a€tive ompofition he i i agreeable and 
Lahaed ; - his gars are atl gre ouped, ee aa not cor- 
ya Mott of his prints n pictures 
e from 
and dete thou h - alfo etched feveral cee Raphael and - 
other matters. e fometimes marked his engravings with 
his name at length, and at others with his initials enclofed 
m 2heart, and furmounted by a figure refembling the numeral 
OF ENGRAVING. 
4, as feen in our plate of the monograme ufed d by the a 
engravers. The fubje€ts ve oe principal etchin 
ab 
aa 
His own portrait enclofed upported ie 
ler in quarto ; antitied & ye Peter Brebictte, Caleogra- 
= 
"That of Francis Quefnel, the painter, fupported by alle 
cone oe . hese and Fame. 
A fet, of various prints, under the title a 
+ Opera diverfa % a ra Brebriette inven ta, ”? in quarto, 
dated 1658. * The Nativity,”’ inquarto. “ The Adore 
tion of the Magi,” in quarto. Thisis an unfinifhed plate, 
and without the name of the artift. “ The Virgin Mary 
with e cat Chrift afleep,’’ in quarto, dated 1638. 
aculous Conception itfelf feems {carcely.more mi- 
eeu chen te of the infinitel 
fiticns to which thefe divine germs have given intelleoal 
birth. When the vaft number of engravings and pi€tures of 
the Holy Family and ee and Child are contemplated, it 
really appears as if me divine pane the fubje& 
bed 
eel were ape ible, and as if the mental of com. 
paring their various beauties and merits were deftined to 
baffle human fatceptibility fe alee Brebiette bas en- 
graven three more plates of the Virgin and Child, i in folio ; 
in the firft of which the infant Chrift is crowned ; in the fe. 
cond, the virgin mother appears on her knees near the Saviour, 
a attended by two angels; and in the third, faints are 
aioe ng her. 
¢ The Converfion of St. 
Paul, > without the name or 
Bb eypher of Brebiette, in folio, © The Mar 
rtyrdom of St. 
Catherine,’ in quarto. “ The sree tyrdom of St. -Sebaf- 
ie in Ne «© 'The Death of Niobe’s Chi ildren,’”” a an 
ight. us furrounded by the Brutes,’’ in ve 
*.Orp 
ve ae fabjee with Leino in quarto. “ Le 
trains du Sie e Pibrac,”? dated Paris 1640. 
Four Seafons,” in “Goal oie 
The following are in ne elongated form of friezes. 
« The Battle of the a and Centaurs,” « Thet 
at her Toilette ;” «A ce to Ceres.”’ A fet of tw: ae 
erage ic fubjeCs ; at a fet of four, reprefenting fea. 
ods, 
74 The. 
After other painters, Brebiette has engraved the follow- 
ing plates 
“An He ly 
foot upon a 
ee nie the infant St. John has hig 
raved on two ore tes, and one of the very beft of the 
works oF Brebiette 
oe 
ct ct 
fervice of that diftinguifhed patron of art, Cofmo de,Me 
‘cis, from whom he en athe a penfion equal to that which had 
been granted to Callot, though far his inferior in merit. 
After remaining at Florence about feven years, he purfued 
his journey to Rome, w ae had bee 
travels, veri he {pent 
Pouffin, a 
In the year 1634, he removed to Paris, a "Louis 
‘XIII., hearing of his merits, affigned him a handfonie 
penfion, and apartments in the Louvre, which induced him 
Pp ta 
