FRENCH SCHOOL OF ENGRAVING. 
dmam, | in folio. View of Frefcati, and its environs, in folio. 
% Por ntana magiore nel Giardino di Tivoli, Vicino 
organo,’’ in folio, with the cypher of the engraver. “« Statue 
e Vedute della villa Pam/fili.”” Roffi exc. in thir rty-four middle 
ne es “ Catafaico e aparato nella chiefa di §. Vin- 
equie del — mega 
us ; Sepulchr al Monu of Nico 
Ludovifi Plambini, la Collegio fac. Je fa. "Dominicus ed 
riere Gallus inventer, exegit, delineavit et fculpfit,”’ in folio, 
- Hercules fitting, from a bas relief, in the Garden of the 
Palace o ea ‘a aaa in the book of the Hefpe- 
rides of P. ioe 10. ircum Urbis Agonalibus 
ludis olim Elbe dias triu amphali pompo Chrilto refur- 
genti Hifpana pietas celebriorem rediddit.’? Anno Jubilei 
1650. Eques Rainal Are hit. Dominicus Barriere maff. del. 
et {c. This, fay the French writers, is a fuperb piece, en- 
riched with a vatt — of figures. “The Hiftory of 
Apollo,” engraved on feveral plates, after the i aie fo) 
Domichine and Viola, in ‘the V3 Na Aldobran 
Befides the above, Barriere executed various cee works, 
after a Bolognefe, Claude of Lorrain, Titian and 
other matters. 
Gabri il fier defigned and ans landfcape with 
pale ania i a was ana of Paris ris, born fome 
abou : 
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of plates, fome of which are views, but the far 
engraved from his own a. ed aS 
drawing, his prints are far above mediocrity ; 
ro-{curo ake eee his light are too muc 7 c at 
and he feems to have endeavoured to compenfate 
want of teed by ie a of his fhadows, ch has 
rendered his effets f{pott yi and in confequence of his em- 
Beck the point too little, and the graver too oe the 
of his engraving is fomewhat heavy an 
notwithftanding thefe defeéts, Perelle was a meritori- 
. ari and fhould be ranked high among the landf{cape 
of France; though the foliage of his trees be de- 
fe ive in ae expreffion, the ruined temples and other 
edifices which abound in his works are almoit always eg 
ful and picturefque is imagination, ftored by contem- 
plating the works of Claude, the Pot ufins, Dominichino, 
1 at predeceffors in la ape, was lively and rO~ 
nd in confequence, often attains elegance, and fome- 
cn contiderable grandeu 
“The engravings by this fail , of whom the fath 
pears to have’ been the fuperior alae are generally inferibed 
“© Perelle inv. et fecit.2? The v robabl 
be -eh enumer pas feven handed and fixty a their prints 
known been in the poffeffion of the abbé 
Marolles 3 in he a 1665, w hill an artiits were yet living. 
Of thefe a large proportion are from f the 
fenior Perelle, and were publifhed in ce “generally confift- 
ing of four each, of the quarto fize, a circular form, but 
without any titles beneath. As it would be endlefs to de. 
{cribe we can only fay in een cen there are at leatta 
dozen fets, confifting chiefly of mountain- {cenery 
h oe ruins, trees, and figures.” Ruined edifices feen by 
wit 
moon-light conttitute the eae of one fet 5 ae a leatt two. 
fets are of fhipping and fea mainder of 
Perelle’s works, “the lice will probably be found 
, =“ worthy of notice. 
Four views in the gardens of Verfailles. A pair of do. 
The grotto of Rouel and the fountain of Tivoli, in folio, 
Five ee pairs of folio landfcapes with appropriate 
L. XV. 
figures. A pair of views, dne of the pate of conference, 
the other in the gardens of St. Cloud, then the palace of 
the archbithop of Paris, in folio. A pair of views in .the. 
he ens at iagruaie rene’ &. fet of four, alfo of the folio~ 
lize, and fro psc VIZ. The church of 
St. Michael of Di 
Four views 
in Paris : wize The arfenal and the mall, the Bon 
the Ile du Palois; the Louvre, and the pat 
- Mall with - aoining fields. Silvelbre del. Perelle fc. 
n. folio. For cial views, namely, the baths of 
Pouiton d’ ie nba the ho oly chapel of Bourbon d’Ar- 
chambaut ; the chat of Bourbon Lancy, and its baths in 
the time of ce ‘Colas ; ; He the Gra r 
near noble drawn by Silveftre, in folio. 
the Be ee iful {cenesin the garden of Ruel. Ifrael Sil- 
veltre del. Perelles fculp., ia large 4to. Capit mountainous 
fcapes, with buildings and ruins, in the o 
reprefented difmiffing Saye and in the pane fe 
. Bril, n folio. ‘The 
which is ec, ane was fu 
circumitance. 
was altered by the Frenchmen os ss the 
Jean C 
marked w: rth his ornher chil “vill be found among our 
monograms of the engravers of the French {chool "eT he 
following - a few of his beft productions. 
«“ The fome Pinks to her 
Son, ae. fhe holds on 
infcribed eee meus mihi e 
after Guercino, in Folio, = Madonna,” after appt Heese 
in folio, alf-hgure of an “ Afflicted Magdalen, 
defpoiling herfelf of her Raiment,’’ aft run, i 
“ cenfion,’? in which the portrait of the 
painter is feen among the apottles, after Jac. Stella, in folio. 
“ Cleobulus, one of the feven wile Men of Greece,”’ after Cl. 
Vignon, in folio. «The Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew,” 
after Poutfiin, 1 in folio, one of the belt eagravings of Couvay. 
A pair after G. Huret, which are entitled “The Refidence 
of the Faculties of the Soul,” and « The beautiful Abode of 
the five Senfes,’’ in folio, engraved in imitation of the ftyle 
of Ab. Bofle 
Among t the portraits of Couvay, the moft efteemed are, 
n effigy of e other Simon Difly, a lay capuchin, and 
= XIV. on. horfe-back, preceded by Fame, after 
J. Bourdon, in 7. the esac tis to the poem of Clovis. 
ar-fur-A 
> 
Sebattien Vouillement was born at ‘bo 
the year wan He a ed the elem defign under 
Daniel Rab d engraved feveral plates both at Paris 
an 
and Rome, ae he relided for a coniiderable time, but iad 
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