FRENCH SCHOOL OF ENGRAVING. 
fel a ise? a Carola Catherina Patina, Parifiana 
3” he alfoe 
Bag ees a cae ates in a are and bold, but 
x * a 
of St. Charles Boromeo, an oval in folic, after his brother 
Gabriel’s defign. 
iel le Brun, the br rot the er of Char ‘les, was bor 
o. His talen 
though we fhould hope without foundation, ne a Gealog. 
was ie of the fame of his brother, as thr ice to attempt his 
only mention the ellos 
Portrait of Charles Fevret de Saint Mefmin 1657, in 
en an oval. <¢ An n Allegory of the Peace concluded by 
al iar in folio. * oo to the Me- 
orio ‘Siri, o. The “ Twelve Apoftles,” 
after Charles le Brun, in isa ‘© The ih deemer,’? a 
large figure, from the fame, folio, on two plates. 
«s « Saint ee hye fo famey ‘blithe by pe Mariette, 
foli ony,’ e fam as in ak A 
Se «Grand Thefe, a dedicated to ne een of Normandy ; 
from the fame, in folio, Another “‘ Grand 'T'hefe,”’ peer d 
to the parliament of Britanny, ar the fame. Cac alfo 
engraved feveral other pieces from Tintoret, Agoftino 
Caracci and 0 ther Italian matter 
ourguignon the battle ate (for whofe pier es 
fe Correst,) performed about this time a few etchin ngs 0 
copper, which are jufily admired and fought after by ai 
lectors of nee hey are ina ee of uncommon 
fire and free and their chiaro-fcuros broad an 
The fabjects of the principal of fem 
terly. m are as follow: 
A feries of eight plates of battles, fub{cribed Giac. 
Cortefe fecit, fmall. K nother or - four {mall plates of 
battles fablen ibed with his initials o 
he battles co saarpes ed in the Girt Dies, of the hiftory of 
the wars in Flan re Flam Strada, in 4to. are alfo 
attributed to ‘hie. pps nik, 
Guillaume Courtois, or Cortefi, the brother of Bour- 
t ney Y eee in ies: igi dn in 
t Rom 7 
Italy at an ae pened of life, Gia one frequented ‘the 
{chool of Pietro da Cortona, and fuch was his merit as a 
al that Carlo Maratte hefitated not to prefer his 
sto thofe of his mafter, His defigns may perhaps 
Be ‘more ane. but a certain coldnefs pervades his com- 
His engravings are few in sae and.the fol- 
Ewing will probably be ae to be the’ of them 
«The Plague, in which Tobias is feen burying the Dead, ‘ 
A. Welterhout exc. ig folio, neany {quar A 
glorified Virgin Mary,’’ in folio. he Pigetes of the 
infcribed Gul Cortefe del. in folio. “ The Pre 
Kin 
ae of Chrift in emple,’’ after Paul Veronefe, in 
folio. ‘ The Refurreétion of Lagans 3”? after 'Fintoret, in 
folio. « Chrift healing the Sick,” n folio. 
The Courtois had another takes who was alfo named 
ae engl and who is faid t 
pain As he became however a capuc 
ae “and only travelled refpefting the concerns of his 
order, very little is known concerning him. 
frael Silveftre was born at Nancy in the year 1621, 
and died in 1691 at Paris, Rad he had taken up his abode. 
The pupil and nephew of Ifrael Henriet, he difplayed fo 
much tafte and judgment in ae views and other landfcapes, 
that Louis XIV. emplo iehes him to delign and engrave the 
royal palaces, as al as the ia ee and the prin- 
cipal places conquered . hes He afterwards was 
honoured with the title of ates fan defigner to the Dau 
— bie the grant of a penfion and apart 
Lou 
ey 
ments in 
Silveltre died in ae month of October, at thera age of 
eventy ge leaving behind a moft refpe€table charafter 
and feveral children, “of whom his fon Louis was afterward 
ditinguithed by Boa invited to the court of a en, where 
enjoyed the title of firft painter to Auguftus III. ki ing 
of Poland = Ele@or of Saxony, and where he remained 
are year 
n the courte of = oH Silveftre twice vifited Italy, 
eieies he broug a great number of fketches and 
drawings, which ie yee one ved, ‘The {mall figures 
with which he peopled his landfcapes are executed with 
tafte and fpirit. In the ftyle. of — landfcapes themfelves, 
his French peas fay, that he imitated Callot and 
Della Bella, and was in his ee imitated b erc; but 
there is a ook hor 1a and felicitous feeling in the line of 
Silveftre, that has very rarely been equalled, and 
perhaps, as applied to certain objects, has never been 
celle is winding roa is his various eed 
his broken ground, are mo ta 
neated, without being ranked into the French 
refquenefs of the old ichool ; ae his freedom A felicity 
Pe being its fu ie ef, ms to deta originality. 
further b ved, that the arti 
are) 
can be 
Now sae it be true that Della Bella, Callot, and Perelle, 
were the con Sala of Silvel re, yet thelatter, (a fome- 
what nies man indeed,) is known to have etched the 
pests and bi vldin s in lome of Callot’s aes ee 
circumitance, ec nal 
vidence deducible from ftrone and _ sag “affords a 
r efu ption, that Silveftre firft -French 
engraver who in his etchings delineated Tandfeape with: 
talte. 
The whole number of engravings by this artift, amounting 
to more than a thoufand, we fhall here reftri@t ourfelveti,, 
to the mention of only the hs diftinguifhed. 
fet of four plates of the fe = airs nified. fet | 
of views in Italy and France, eer French infcriptions, twen- 
ty-one plates. ee of ag ies in Rome, and the 
environs, publi Ifrael Henriet, with ee nace 
in French, Gan plates including the title, in §vo. Another 
fet of tw: sil views in It with b pare om 
{m all figu Another ws, ornamente t 
fame ue ; with explanations in Italian and French, fle 
ieces in 8vo. Another e of 
ee 0 
other ere ra plates, fome of which appear to es by Della 
Bella, of pale “in eee with explanations in the Italian 
d language, Another fet of eighteen To 
Tc Giew in France) p ubhifhe ia by Hirael, and 
dedicated t ouis Crévant, marqui saan 
in 4to. ‘anathes Speeaieeiary fet of fa views in Fra 
of the quarto fize, “taken om the feveral {pots by Tirael 
3 Silveftre.”’ 
