FRENCH SCHOOL 
Nicolas Mignard was born at Troyes, in Champagne, in 
the year 1608, and died : Paris in 1668. He acquired the 
udiments of art under Jean Boucher, of Bourges, and care- 
pues ftudied - nape poe ae pitures f Primaticcio 
M. x, preferved in the palace of Fo eblea 
Ps 
Pag & 
a journey to “Teal aaa on his w 
s, by 
quired great Pda a ; oe he psi the Telowiis oe 
iy the ures of Annibal and Agoftino Caracci 
in one of the aan of the Farnefe palace. ft. “ The 
- Choice of atl «¢ Hercules eponne after - 
Labours.”? 3d. ¢ « Hercules fupporting the Glob 
“ Ulyfies ys the Song of the Syrens. eth, * Amp 
ome an pe.” 6th. es ftriking off the Head 
of Medufa.”’ i « a Rape of Ganymede.” ” 8th. “ The 
Triumph of Bac 
Michel eee was born at St. Quentin in 1617, and 
died at Paris in’ 1665, the difciple and brother-in-law of 
= 
five ; e well kene ew ee to economife his light, and to im- 
-partto his draperies an eafy and natural caft. But he was 
not equally fuceefsful in drawing, efpecially of the hands 
and feet of his different perfonages. He executed, from his 
own iy see a feries of fix plates, reprefenting the fefti- 
vals of fauns, fatyrs, a &c. in folio; and from 
Vouet he etched the follov 
“ — Nativity of our * Seviour,” in folio. Apollo 
the Guidance of the Chariot of the Sun,’’ in folio. 
? in 
Phineas ae the ‘Children "of Bee 
her oe fmall folio. « Venus aa Hope plucking the 
s of Love,’’ {mall folio. “Mercury and the Graces,” 
sc va tearing’ 
n folio. 
ia 
bringing a re to the In 
executed for the cielin 1 de Fermes, and is 
.graved inthe manner of a frieze, on four ee S. 
Nicholas Robert was born, according to fome accounts, 
at Langres, and from others at Orleans, in 1610, and died 
-at Paris in 1684 i 
en- 
e worked with th nly, in ’ ale: heavy yl 
-apparently a diftant 1 imitation of that of Poilly.”” Such i 
the account which Strutt gives of this artift ; Watelet 
{peaks much more favourably, 
-probably be found nearer the tra 
We begin our lik of his ena es with the por- 
a our countryman will 
‘the whole figure of the child i 
OF ENGRAVING. 
traits which he has engraven, and which are of the folie 
ize. 
plates illuftrative of the on of love 
hif-orical and allegorical eae hich are alfo of the 
zone fize, are, 
‘ The Condemnation of St. Ste hen! “St. Peter 
ee i to the Chriftians, who receive the holy Spirit.” 
A Holy Family, with St. Catherine and another Saint.”’ 
« The miraculous Image of our Lady of Lieffe,” infcribed 
to the duchets de Nemours, 16 5, alarge folio.  Chrift 
with the Crown of Thorns « Louis XITI. a een 
Anne prefenting the Dauphin to the holy Virgin,” dated 
1638. ifdom, Peace, Eloquence fupporting the 
Arms of Richelieu,” 1638. + Frontifpiece to the Hitto- 
ry of the sas Wars of France.’ 
e date of the birth and he of the death of Jaques 
ee face not been recorded. Strutt fays that he 
flourifhed towards the_ clofe of the laft aaah and Aen 
° bot ee 
that, = was a native of Chalon 
of dra wing under Claude Hees, and afterwards ftudied 
at Parisin the fchool of Vouet. Bafan fays of him ay 
«< he was a bad painter and a worfe engraver,” and tha 
“* inhisetchings, which are from his own compofitions, we 
‘find much fire, more caprice than Tpscenle little correét« 
iene i ie . Mr, thinks this fen- 
ar on Bellange’ s plate of the 
irgin Mary and infant Chrift, ca that the ftyle of oe. 
ing in which it is executed, ‘¢ however fingular, is by n 
means deftitute of merit : his drawi ring appears to me to ie 
incorreét rather from affeCtation than want of 
is well a reais 
eed an awkwardnefs in ap of 
and the cha cme of her 
tim ing 
ah. ie graver, i. way of ae and rifenine the 
roughnefs of his etching. 
Bellange left behind him fifty oy Sie plates, of which 
os pe of a folio fize, are as toll 
‘T amily, with St. John and St Catherine,’ 
The Annunciation,” of a {quare form, 
pri “ The 
Adoration of the Ma A. fet of three fingle figures 
of Eaftern Kings, viz. Cafpar of Tarfus, Melchior of Nu- 
bia, and Balthafar of Sheba, <«“ i 
On. 
; e Marys vifiting 
“ St John the Bape in the Defert.”” 
- Tt 
a Fem 
leaning on a Drum, witha City in the ait ance on A feries 
of five female figures flanding in different attitn des. A 
{mall oval of « St. Ma ary Magdalen, with her Hand o1 on het 
ofom 
Pierre Daret was bofn at Paris in the year 1610: after 
acquiring the rudimental principles of sg a8 in France, 
he went to Italy to complete his ftudies, and remained there 
aconfiderable time.; but finally returned to nie maces city, 
and 
