FRENCH SCHOOL OF ENGRAVING. 
the pia, in aclear, neat manner, but with great 
and; he often nt 
een, crofling 
is fecond ftrokes too fquarely upea the “fart, He certainly 
ee the human figure witha confiderable degree of correét- 
His elegy 
efpecially are, in general, rather heavy and defective. is 
lights, ov ufual with the en engravers of th 
much {cattered, and too 
bails are ae held in great eftimation. ngraved 
« The Labours of Hercules,”’ a fet of _— fmall ae 
plates from F. Floris. ‘The Cries of of 
Sixteen fmall upright folios, ae fo itll fom Villa 
mena, that it is ner ea he o know the differenc 
the origin nals, Via: and Chi ade by 
Angels,” an oe me atter Champagne. “ La Vier, 
aouriflant St. Bernard de fon lait,”’ and aToihce Ato. front 
A fet of landicapes after 
m he G 
anied by 
This ne is a hee rare prin 
erom avi ie uae legs oi and worked in 
the fame “Ryle, ian i. with talents fomewhat inferior : he 
went to Italy, and followed ee ie ero ion of engrav 
ing till to wud the middle of the feventeenth century, bit 
the ak of his birth and death ra been a 
the ‘ Series o hagas aed 
Cane ee, a attending to this eae fone, has 
en of his works as if they were executed by two artifts, 
Jerome, and H. David. In fome inftances, however, his en-« 
gravings are ieee wee with “< monogram, si “ fee 
our plate of cyphers, &c. of the French engra 
The fine ae which begins rith his “portiit, will 
be found to inch e belt engravings fro hand 
this artift, the te of whofe plates, ae to thofe of 
his isthe Charles, amount to about two hundred and 
twenty. 
Charles I. of ei a Maria, his queen 
Anne, queen of Fra ‘Gaito e of O 
fo] 
aa] 
in ae and the a very rare prin 
eres plate reprefenting the eri 
ie “and altars of Rom thefe e etchings, and a 
Expulfion fon Para dif.” “An 
upright folio, from Guercino. ¢ The es of the Rofary,” 
a {mall upright folio, after Guido, dated 1 1633. “ The 
Virgin and Child,”’ a {mall circle, after Guido. The Af- 
fumption of the Virgin,” after Camillio Procaccini. «St. 
Francis de. ie walking on the Sea,’? an etc ching after 
— 
Con ay with the Davids was Jean Ganieres, an 
se -, very flender abilities, who was a native of France, 
and refided at Paris. His beft works are ae and the 
beft of his portraits are thofe of Louis XIII. of France, 
a {mall oval,. furrounded with ornaments, and dated 1640. 
rleans ; ane 
Cardinal eee are al whole’ length cae tres portraits,. 
Cardinal Flavio Chigi, a {mall upright; and M. de la Mel- 
leraye, in gto. dated 1679. He alfo engraved « A oy 
fle per with a Rene ying near him,” a imall plate, dated 
” in folio, after. Jacques Blanchard, 
beats fome anes js from the fame painter. 
Francis Tortebat, an arti ift of r merit, was 
n 
go. wa 
pupil of Simon Mati fone dice pictures 
d defigns he etched — of his plates. 
ewhat rough, but are performed with 
- {pirit ; and ie 3e Frequently produces a good chiaro- 
Sampfon ans his Strength, 
and Seg the Phlitines 2 and *¢ The Apotheofis, or 
— of St. 
he 
Gelee, wie both lived at this period, among their hool 
with no ver frie ropriety, as 
of them co ne uted to the oo of that 
Blanchard, as welljas 
from his own compofitions; of = 
deferving of notice are, “ ‘An 
lithed by Huart. 
Cartres. 
ened a fae etchings 
E the fe IP in gin are pan 
For an account o e fee oa aes aphy of him as a 
painter. Yet the curious ares scieted to ‘7 in- 
foe that the ae etchings are - om the needle of 
- igi Ferg near ated a. oh 
f 
urfe are ee 
n at 
landfcapes; one a fea-port with mariners; the o 
toral {cene with figures dancing. A fet of tw oe 
see a aes sy which are. highly efteemed among conno ifeurs, 
and the “ Via dette nee Vaccino di Roma,’ in 
folio, dated 1 
Claude 
the honour of infru@ing 
the king of” ee the grand monarque himfelf! in the 
arts of defigt 
Thus ‘Strutt; ‘but the French writers, with more 
probability, and indeed with better opportunities of afcer. 
ener i of this kind, fay that from cae young Mellan 
ome, and ily gn eGures of the 
celcbeated ewe Now fellan was ce 
years of age, which is the. period - catch he is faid to hav 
travelled to Italy, Vouet was prefident of the Roman 
Academy of St. Luke, ‘and did not return to Paris till the 
year 1627, when he was fummoned home by Louis XIII. 
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