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{cribed- with tw tee 
than moft other o ae a s of Vouillement, «Po ope 
Urban VIII. pronouncing the Benedidtion,” infcribed 5S. 
Vouillement ome 1642, in 4to n Author 
r 4 : 
writing,” oe ire a the ae nti d’Amore, 
6 ae ae ae "from the 
Family. “The 
Cecilia,”’ are all “from ieee and in 1 fo lio 
Jean Pefne (called Penna by the Italians) was — at 
Rouen in the year 1623, and at Paris It does 
not appear under whom he ft erie and vara with great 
probability, conjectures s that he was brought up under fome 
painter, perhaps Nicholas Poufiin, ha Ww hole rare = 
greater part of his engravings are t . in 
flight, coarfe, andi ir egular ityle, an ete his plates ak 
izing and blending eat ork by means of 
im, fomewhat fe role: et 
Kn 
a dran, 
Claudia Stella. 
Fhe beft of his engravings are, two pores of N. 
from: pictures by himfelf, middle-fized upright 
folios, one dated in 1649. From the fame 
hae - er 
or A 
of Chit ex xtended near the Sepulchre, with 
“A Hol 
Family,” dedicate to C. le “ St. "Pa ul taken u 
into the third Heaven.” «The reiamieat of Eudamidas af 
she City of Corinth.” “The Triumph of Galatea.” 
“Summer, with the Story of Boaz and Ruth.” « Au- 
tuma,” the figures introduced into which are the two {pies 
bearing a bunch of grapes from the promifed land. 
"The ne are — which compleat the fet, are en- 
grave fet of nineteen plates, inching 
the fecmtipiece of ie Labours of Hercules, from 
The £ ihc in the grand gallery of the Louvre. 
dal ard collection 
the marquis OF Stafford, at Cleveland hou i. ee se The 
Baptifm,”’ or John baptizing Jefus in the waters of Jordan ; 
«The Supper,”’ or Jefus at table in the houfe of Simon the 
” given high prie 
ling the Paffoves with his Difeiples Une- 
-adminifter ed to a dying man, eomed. ‘. his 
s¢ Chrift laid in the Sepul- fe 
adonna, Toly 
> bis originals, 
is originals 
dered. 
‘of hiftorical fubjects and portraits, ef which 
OF ENGRAVING. 
weeping Family; ¢ The Charge,’ or Jefus delivering the 
keys to St. Peter; and “ ae x the affiancing of 
J ats an Mary, large folio 
owing aa are a oo painters of the Ita 
lian fcboel “A Holy Family,” from Raphael’s celebrated 
picture in the Orlean eee ices in folio. In this piece 
Mary is reprefented holding the Infant Chrift, whom St, 
John embraces, while St. Jofeph is ae ata little diftance 
walking behind a thicket. A feries of rene jig with a 
Fomtlpce, by Jean Pefne, named her Rom e) 
ae casa in reais plates, in folio, a odio highly 
Ee by co 
Among ee portrait a two following are moft igo 
Louis le Comte, fculptor to the king, (infcribed J. 
pinx. et feulpat,) in folio, and Francis Langlois, called 
rh Chartres, bookfeller, after Van Dyke, dated 1645, and 
alfo of the folio fize. 
Franceis de Poilly was born at Abbeville A.D. 1622, 
esa ingenuity in the arts of engraving and defi 
ed the rudiments me future .profeffion under fe 
ears 3 but bein 
stenfive profeffio nal_know- 
r 
till Europe was furprized by the tranfcendent m 
of Wille and Bervic. His engravings are bold, firm 
clear, and are finifhed with great accuracy ; but from. want 
of variety in'the handling of his graver, the flefh, draperies, 
nd bac of his 
guifhed from each other, 
the heavinefs and coldnefs of a leaden ftatue. angu 
croffing was the prime element of his ftyle ; oaeeal feeond 
courfes of lines were thrown over his firft courfes, fo as to. 
es. wit nd. 
ecifion ; in aes seer oe an heads ie faithfully copied 
and his extremities, in general, are well rens 
On his return from Italy de Poilly fettled in Paris, 
where he not only purfued his profeffional labours with his 
fult of confiderable ¢ care ee patience, His gra s confift 
ning proceed 
w of the moft remarkable beginning 
to mention fome: 
with the latter 
ter P. Mignard; Guillaume de Lamoignon, fur. 
rounded 1 by allegorical figures of Virtue, Probity, and Can- 
dour, fromthe fame‘painter ; and a buit of the fame original, 
as large as life. The above are all of the folio fize, us 
ther 
