FRENCH SCHOOL 
4o abandon a journey he had projeGted into Spain, and to 
fettle at Paris, be he was foon after honoured with the 
— of St. 
egal of his nee Stella is og. and without enerey 
rene h he es fome portion of grace, and details. 1 
forms with Lae Vee NP erate knowledg ge. He was more 
of, a painter than an engraver, and his beit productions are 
‘ his fmaller pi€tures of paftorals and children’s {ports, though 
tion 
ly performed with the point, an 
fort of pun upon his own furname, as is 
plate of the marks, 
{chool. 
Stella’s etchings, which are not very numerous, are from 
his own compofitions. ‘The principal of them are, «* The 
2mplifie 
&c. of the eoenes of the French 
m: Tufcany, on 
John’s day,’ : a He a ole, dedicated to the emperor Ferdi- 
nand II., and dated in the year 1621 
iec , 
ments of engraving < at Paris, but aL 2s was t the cultom 
of his age, travelled to Italy for improvement. e varied 
the ftyle .. his engravings at different ees of his life ; 
and y diitinguifh between thofe prints which 
i engraved befor ae ‘and thofe which were produced after, 
nnaiile 
his re turn from earlier works aii executed 
entirely with the pe afd though fufficiently neat, are 
:old, mechanical; andasa French author fays, ** the - 
n 
ner accufes the fk ”? In his fubfequent ftyle, he mingled 
etching with the work of the.graver, and.rofe decidedly fu- 
periorto his former felf. From a certain degree of refem- 
blance being traceable between this fecond ity le and that of 
fe ome o _ biographers have infer- 
e could i 
when Baudet produced the engravings in quettion. 
This artift alfo occafionally engrav lees in a tafte of Claude 
Mellan, :who was his contemporary ; n the courfe of a 
life he pr rodu ced aco onfiderable es of plates, from 
are s the 
imens 0: = ities. 
dates eicoas this artift ;) a 
T ribute Money,” a a tila fized ae ween 
{quare, from Valentino, which (fays this author) I think 
the moft mafterly of thofe which he executed in this manner. 
Four large a ed with figures, from Alba- 
no, publithed at Rome in1672. ‘The figures i in thefe are 
from the hiftory of Venus and Adonis. “ The Four Ele- 
ments,” large circular prints, from the fame mafter, dated 
1675, (though oe . Strutt woth are dhe roe till 
twenty years after); ‘The of St. Ste 
phen,” a fee folio ae from Renita Carace? 8 celebrated 
picture inthe cabinet of the king of France; publifhed in 
17° 
In his fecond ftyle, according to the fame writer, are, 
“‘ Mofes trampling on the Czown of peasy ”? a ee 
folio, from Pouflin’s pi@ure-in the Louvre. - Mofes 
ftriking the Rock,”’ and “ The = Tigi Se the 
Golden Calf,’ both in folio, a e fame matter. 
© The Holy Family,” rons Poulin’ s pera in the gallery 
OF ENGRAVING: 
.of the Louvre, in folios and “ Venus repofing after” the 
1666. 
with 
y dedi- 
oma in folio, and from 
he followin 
figures, are allo 
cated to the prince of Condé, and piblithed | in 21684 and | 
mether Me of a. dedicated to the king of ‘Fra 
n the defigns of other painters, Scag to me cata- 
icaa of Huber and Roft, Baudet has engraven the follow- 
the fame painter, publifhe 
large hiftorical land{capes, i 
rom the Pouffins. A fet 
_ing plates, viz. 
«“ An Holy Family,” from Sebaftian Bourdon, in a cir. 
cular form, and where ety and the infant St. John are 
aoe Gf tie Shepherds,”” 
har “Fo o. The Defcent from the 
Crofs,” see An nibal Caracci, in folio. “« The Communion 
of the primitive Chriftians,’? after Charles. de la Toffe. 
A fquare plate after Valentino, entitled « Le dernier de 
Cefar.”” A fet of fix grand folio landfeapes, ~~ Sebaftian 
Bourdon, y Baudet, 
» the ori- 
B. ie: fixth plates 
which is of the cicling, is engraved by h. Simmonneau 3) 
and « Adam and Eve difmiffled from Parade,” after Do- 
ane ae from a picture in the king of France’s oa $, 
which engraving is elteemed the chef, d’ceuvre 
efide hi iad and oS this artiit has “‘iftinguifhed 
tues in the royal garden. 
ree Pera sneer easier ‘of the royal buildings, 
after mk run, dated 1 in 1665, and infcribed_‘ Stef. Bau 
. Reg.” Louifa duchefs of Portfmouth, as Venues 
a ae a dove, xafcar, Antique built of a Ro- 
man la d of nee reign ae Adrian, from an original in ra 
rear iat and another antique buft of the emperor Adr 
2 
el on 
Simon Guillain — itatuary, and occ fionally an an archi- 
t who peated performed at leaft an hacia etchings 
is common one ang the French {chool of en- 
«Hew s born at Paris A.D. 1599 aid died in 
nimes de la Pla ners , are alfo ae his chife 
The fo ieee ng flight, but mafterly etchings, are not ak 
creditable than his Calon to the general flock of. his 
lents as an artift. 
A fet of ae plates from the life of St. Diego, from: 
the originals of Annibal Caracci and Albano,, in the church. 
of the Spaniards at Rome; anda fet of eighty {mall uprights, 
entitled the Cries of Bologna, me after Annibal Caracci, 
with his life and aa appen 
s David was born fome time abont the commence- 
ment of the penn cen ive of Paris, 
but under what mafter he die engraving hs “his biographer 
‘e 
‘Pu 
Te) 
fob) 
a) 
fe) 
ce 
6 
& 
i 
fo) 
ifts, 
hea than a direct imitation of any one. He worked say 
wit! 
