FRENCH SCHOOL OF ENGRAVING. 
year 1614, and died in the fame city in 1677. 
‘educated a painter, and ftudied under Louis Bobrum, na 
‘the following etchings, which are held in fome igh euasiar by 
‘the collectors of French art, are from hig han «An Infant - 
a to ‘ous XIV. after Le 
Brun. n large folio, and from 
the fame painter. This appears aaa the name of André, 
but is known to be from hishand. F, de Poilly has engraven 
Rouffelet, was born at Par 
: ied in the fame city in 1686. He one 
‘to have ftudied in te {chool of De Poilly and from the works 
oem yle partakes occafionally of the merits 
and peculiarities of on thofe artifts. Rouffelet drew with 
tolerable correétnefs, and difcriminated the textures of the 
various fubftances reprefented in_his EanEramnee with .more 
in the elon of the duke of Orleans, engraven 1656, 
folio. Here St. Jofephis ae and pretning flowers to 
the Infant Jefus, who is feated onthe knees of his mother. 
Another “ Holy Family,” from ee of A ae = 
merly in the ge ccaaeh - the of » know der 
gin of Foutainblean, « - the fair ‘Gar- 
den ece t ae Virgin is feated, with the Infant 
‘Jefus by! her fade a the little ‘St. John kneeling before 
«“ A Holy Family,”? from a painting of Raphael, formerly 
at Verfailles, and which Louis XIV. caufed to be engraven 
ntly engraven, 
0} 
John is refering a Crofs,” fon Guido, a piece falfely 
ced name of Cas, folio. “The Annun- 
ss St. Francis in Meditation,’’ 
with the d of Goliah,’’ 
A fet of four plates of the «« Labours 
: formerly in the cabinet 
of the French king, in z. 1. Hercules flaying the 
“Hydraof Lerna;”’ 2. “Hercules s fruggling with Archelaus ad 
3 & Hercules flaying the Centaur Neffus, the Ravither of De- 
janiray’? 4. Hercules on the Funeral Pile.” Thefe are 
very diftinguifhed ‘prints, and of the upright form “ Da- 
vid playing on the Harp,” from Dominichino, folio. “§ 
pons carried to the Sepulchre,’”? from a painting by Ti- 
in and cabinet of the French king, a large folio, 
lary,’? from 
ae Eliazar ae a Bracelet 
uffin, for- 
h 
Jean Foreft. « T 
L 
two groups of little angels, and two of — 3 ir 
the back ground, the city of Jerufalem, from Je Brun: 
“ The Body of Jefus Chrift placed he i Virgin at i 
Foot of the Crofs,”’ from the fame, both in large folio. A 
oly Family,” from the fame, in folio. Here the Infant 
efus is reprefented as if expounding the facred fcripture. 
“ agdalen,”’ cuneate ¢¢ Remittuntur ei peccata,”’ fr om 
the fame, a aes h figure in an oval, folio. 
n irgin,” from 
ae 
the fame, 
folio. * The Great The t. Pol,” in w hich 
Louis bac is feen on horfe-back, from ‘fa fa ame. 
of Angouléme, oval, in 
Meffire Pierre Seguier, ciate lipe of France, with 
fupporters, from Le Brun, in folio = . . a Belleval, 
chancellor of the univerfity, from t the fam ron- 
tifpiece to the Polyglott bible, after Sebaitian Bourdon 
engraving of confiderable merit, wherein Fame is repr: cfented 
the medallion of cardinal meas and Hittor 
: yet there is a certain degree of 
fs in ecutio His plates confiit chiefly of 
etching, the lights cae foftened by ftippling with the 
a 
er) 
“wy 
ak has pene ahaa that there were two artifts. 
of this name, from n au dae ae ai ions of Samuek 
med ee are as. follow, be- 
ginning with his cones whic n folio. 
Louis XIV. prefumptively oa a een by Bernard 
himfelf; an oval. Sebaftian le Preftre de Vauban, from 
F. de Troy ; Charles Louis, count palatine, duke of Bavariay. 
from Vandyke, dated 1657. Louis Garnier, fculptor and 
nilippe, comte de Bethune. sas Ss de Ia 
uze, archbifhop of Paris, fro TOY. 
Of his hiftorical works, which are’ ‘alfo of he “tolio fizes. 
the beft are, «¢ Attila, terrified by the fulipinae of St. 
Peter and St. Paul in the Ajr, abandoning th e Siege of 
Rome,” from Raffaelle. “The Nativity of our rie : 
mbrandt. ‘“ Afty: 
reggio. - ampagne. 
«The Body of Jefus Chrift before the Virgin,” ‘from the 
fame. “The Afcenfion of Jefus Chrift,? from t he fame 
« A Peafant on horfeback, driving Cattle to “winery after 
he Image of Concord, ”? an allegory from 
t. : 
e Brun “ ew oO rom Ca iglione. 
“ Flight “into Berg “ anyrsiety ae "Dei, et matris, et filii, 
1 fugam in E ? from 
Jean Lan Lig was ; born at Abbeville about the year 16155. 
and died at Paris, wheré he principally réfided, in: 16 
He wag the’ pupil .of. Claude Mellan, whofe mode. of eft- 
