FRENCH SCHOOL OF ENGRAVING. 
vifions of ‘Quevedo, each with its appropriate title, and eight 
to. ‘Three large plates, each infcribed 
ee large perfpeCtive views of 
the er of Fontainbleau, with the baptifm of the Dauphin 
introduced, folic. Le Pautre alfo engraved a few plates 
after Paul Farinati, and he generally fabferibed his engrav- 
ings with his initials, either J. P. or J. le P. 
Pierre le Pautre was the fon of John, — we have jut 
mientioned, and was born at Paris A. D. 1659, and died in 
1744. He learned the re of defign, and probably of 
engraving, from his father r 
1690, and the pedeftrian ftatue of Louis [ Grand, an 
was erected in the Hotel de Ville in the yea 1639 $ an en- 
graving which israreand highly efteemed, pees other works 
of inferior note. 
Euttache le Sueur is not known to have etched more than 
a fingle ae Maa is cf the — fize, and the fubie& 
oP mily.’ e was a painter of great celebrity, 
ihe French are juftly oon while his firm 
and ees ee ter mevits the refpect of all men. Fora 
detailed account of his life asa painter, fee Lx 
Frangois Chauveau was born at a in Bigs yea 
and died in the fame city in 1676. the 
Laurent la Hyre, and pamted fmall fast ina 7 pleafing 
ftyle ; ; but he is better known by the vaft number of his en- 
gravings. the c : 
ployed t er; but in a fhort time he fubitituted ae 
t career he e 
ae tiene ae in its ftead, by which means he was enabled 
mencem reir te 
-In the 
may be feen in A prints of t e 
graved at le Sueur ; whereas, in his etchings he is feared 
the graver. 
Gan executed more than three thoufand plates, many 
of which were after other mafters, but the 
ber from his own lee It may fuffice to mention the 
following, to fome o the name of Chauveau appears 
at a and to pine fie opie. which will be found i in 
our 
Charle rles I. of England, in quarto. Jean Pierre Camus, 
bithop of Bellay, in quarto. “ The Pleafures of Genius,” 
in fifty figures, defigned and engraven by Chauvean, i in fa) 55 
mM quarto. “ The principal Events of ithe Be ncien nt ae ry of 
Greece, apres: 
to. # ny a Metamprphofes,” by “Ben aes with an expla- 
nation of e ect ‘ee ‘© Philofophical Fables 
of PEfc laches” “by Chas au iy Ric 
Cochin, 
rleans, by Chrapetain 3 ee two rae 
i * Fulvio Orfini, 1663. 
feveral ee in abe 
Ja’ Pautre, and & the 
alfa executed 
Ben “la Mos oine, 
onof pr 
nction wit 
» for the collec- 
binet of t he King. 
fr 
cop of 
e greater num- in 
Subjoined are a few of the detached engravings of this ar~ 
ee after his own defigns, and thofe of different matters. 
e 
“ The Virgin "Man » her Son, the young St. John, 
ee fome Angels,” infcribed Chanveau pinxs et fe. a {malf 
plate, but finely meade and finifhed with tafte. « The 
Crucifixion.” * In this piece the Virgin, St. John, ‘and 
ary Ger age are “reprefented at the foot of the crofs. 
folic 
Ib. inv. et “The Myttery of the Holy Sacra- 
ment,”? ioe ,ontwo plates. ‘T'wo circular prints of « Me- 
leager and Atalanta,” and ¢ *¢ Venus and Adonis,”’ in folio. 
“¢ Frontifpiece to the t. Bruno,’? in gto 
“© Frentifpiece for the Auguftin,” in 4to. 
“ Frontifpiece for the Poem of Cha lemagne,”’ in 4t 
Oo. 
A “Thefis,”” with armorial bearings,and the four car a vir 
tues. * Jefus Chrift at 'T Table with the Difciples at Emr 
e he 
| Sueur’ 8 Ane in nm the m 
La Tire 
; ar of Caledonia,’’ after the fame, in 
umphal Arch, a rae opright for the Place 
ee nd Daphne,” from 
I 
chin was born at Troyes, in Cham mpagne 
1619, and _ at Paris towards the end of the (eee 
century ; he engraved a great number of prints, ace of his 
own compofition, and after other matters 
Callot in the ftyle is engravings ; but he was more 
faccefaFul in {mall figures than when he attempted to exe- 
cute large ones. The following are deemed fome of his 
beft performances : 
A feries. of fubjects from the New Teftament, eleven 
plates in 1zmo. “ The Mart Apottles,” a 
m fending away 
Land of Canaan,”’ in Falta, Ou 
d Sea,” dated, 
Oo. preaching in 
ee  Converion of St. Pa nl, ”? in folia 
“‘ The Temptation of St. Anthony,’ in folio. 
Befides the above, Cochin engraved feveral. plates after 
Rembrandt, Callot, Della Bella, and other matters, fome 
of em are contained in the works publithed by Beaulieu 
and 
- ,or " Natales Cochin, v ir eed a native of Troyes, 
and fuppoted to have other bee Nicolas. Af. 
r exercifing his Nea a os or fome years at " Paris, 
he retired to Ve enice, where’ he " publithed feveral 
worgss. 
Tt was this <i who engraved moft of the plates for the 
ork of Caroline Catherine Patin, daughter of the cele-, 
bead Charles Patin the phyfician, entitled, « Tabelle 
felectea 
