FRENCH SCHOOL 
graving he ufually imitated, but a all alan was con- 
itantly behind his mafter. Many of his prints are per- 
formed with fin ngle co urfes of ae like thofe of Mellan; 
but he alfo imitated, with fomewhat better fuccefs, that 
artiit’s mode of engraving, wherein he employed crofs hatch- 
ing. is plates are executed with the le er only, an 
though fuficiently neat, are cold and tafte 
"The abbé Marolles colleéted an hundred al eighteen of 
D ions, which are chiefly portraits, and of 
are in moft eftecm. They are all of 
icholas Blaffet, architect and feulptor 
acus fe. 
wl 
um fac 
Rethomagent cite Cham mpagne 
{c. 1664. ovicus Boncherat, D. de Compana, &c. Id. 
Egidiue la Maitre, “Jominus de Ferrier res, &C. 
ee ae 1662. _ Andreas de Pagot, fi 
Id. 1662. 
fanett Quint ni, ie a 
nfant ad vivum faciebat, 1672 he 
butt of our @ Gavicnr after Raphael, an oval. onna 
with ae Infant at her Breait,’? after Caracci. “ The 
Virgin i in the — = f Adoration,” after Guido, oval. Joh. 
eee del, ete 
ela was ah at Paris in 1615, and died in the 
fame ca 5. as the pupil of Vouet, and, ac- 
cording to the French penny joined to a brilliant genius 
a correét tafte, and a love for {tudy: So completely matter 
was he of the theory of his art, that Le Brun himfelf was 
ie - a : confult ges n 1650 he was nomi- 
a and he continued 
is, was nomina 
the Academ 
h 
ulpture, mis 
plufiers aicoas Academiques, ou Conferences tenues 
P Academie Royale des dits ea &e.”? Par ce Teftelin, 
peintrée du Roi, profeffeur et fecretaire en la dite Academie. 
For this work — engraved feveral ee and, among 
one the fo 
he eouten nee the Manna in the Defert,” after Pouffin, 
in folio. The Holy Family,”’ from Pouflin’s celebrated 
picture at Verfailles, engraved in fingle ftrokes, ‘ St. 
Michael’s, Vi€tory over the Devil,” which is alfo engraven 
A fet of eel fal ame ta . E eetai 
ceC rother’s book, a is o 
poftons, ‘of which a 1e fubjects are “children a at =a eee an 
expir ing Chrift, with the city of Jerufaleminthe back ground; 
an anonymous engraving, but one of the works of ‘I'eftelin. 
e are now arrived at the eae ea age ftation of Se- 
baftian sak of whofe merits both as painter and en- 
ve already treated under the article Bourpo 
a: 
SEBAS : a more Li lift of the engravings of fo 
great a genius, than we were at that time enabled to give, 
may ore unacceptable 6 ale reader 
« Abraham’s Ser- 
Ark,” in folio and fine print, of whichthe compo- 
fition is highly commended by fir Jof. cota “ ‘The An- 
nunciation.’ ‘ The Angel appearing the Shep- 
8.7? . 6 The Flight into Egypt,”’ Peet the artift 
has introduced a mutilated ftatue. Another of the fame 
fabje&t, in which Jofeph is oe his afs. Another, in 
which the Holy Family are crofling a wooden bridge, in 
order to reach. a boat. st NAOHRET wherein the Holy Family 
3 
s'The Return of the. 
OF ENGRAVING. 
are walking, and St. Jofeph see a afs. -Another 
which the Virgin Mary is mou e als, which i is oe 
by St. Jofeph ciegagh fome ane ae er, in whi ch 
St. Jofeph is feen leading the afs by the bridle, in defcend~ 
ing a hill. Holy Family refting, in which the infant 
Chrift is feeding a lamb. nother, in which a hreaa St.. 
John is feen holding the foot of the lam 
the Virgin is reprefented wafhing linen. "This | pee is beft 
nown aude: the title of * La Savonneufe ;’’ it is in quarte, 
and nearly {quare. “ The Bapt ifm of the Eunuch, ?? in folia,. 
“ Jefus healing the 
Good Samaritan, 
giving Drink to one a ie Children,” in oo rto.  Pro-- 
{perity,”” in quarto. fet of five plates of the Senfes, in 
quarto, A feries of fourteen plates, reprefenting the libe- 
ral and the focial virtues, dedicated to M. de Colbert, in 
A feri 
of a {maller fine, j in ata and ne arly {quare. 
beautiful nigra inferibed S. Bourdon inv. fculp. et exc. in. 
olio. “ The Seven Works of Mercy,’’ with ea 
to M.deS oe 
Jean le Dae or le Potre, was born at Paris in ny ye ear 
1617. In the early part of his life he was place 
working soldfinith, where he acquired the firft sade 
of ornamental drawing and engraving, and, in particular, ac- 
quired Sie facility in drawing with pen and ink, which 
probabl his mind to etching, while it helped to fami- 
liar ize = ford to the ufe of the point. | authors of the 
“© Man el des Curieux et des awe rs de l’Art,”’ eles that 
n almoft every} kind,. 
executed om his own Aastigns, and abundantly 
rove ie ae dity of his inventive powers. t le 
Comte juftly fays of him that “ it is S hardly poflible . find: 
and that “ every profeffor of the liberal arts or mechanics, 
may find fom ee in his works which will at leaft repay 
the trouble of examination 
e Pautre was adit ds a member cf the French Royal 
Academy of Arts in the year 1677, and died at Paris in 1682. 
The ftyle of his ponerse to fay the beft of it, is rather rich 
than elegant: .it has been called folid; but it is too often 
cumberfome and heavy, ~ compared with the better taite 
the Greeks, or even nch in more recent 
mes. The ftyle of his engraving “partakes of the fame 
Seren and is chiaro-fcuro is deficient in harmony and 
tendernefs. He mult have ‘both def ae and engraved with. 
great rap ion of Mariette were fourtecn. 
hundred rus forty aie fon compofitions of his o 
i 16 
Twelve 
piat 
and de totogial fubje&s, with figures-in the antique ‘yl 
in | folio. Six plates of fea-ports, i in folio, Six = phates a a. 
