PRENCH SCHOOL OF ENGRAVING. 
there is a portrait of de Poilly himfelf, engraven by his pupil 
J. L. Rouillet in the year 1699, from a drawing by his 
matter, don 
Poilly, Fact ates r tot 
The following hiftorica works are alfo of the folio fize : 
«<The a y Family,” ina tape of a circular form, 
nm which St. John is embracing Ge Infant . “ ar Ig- 
«St. F 
the gallery of the Palais Royal. «A amily,’? 
aphael, in wine the Infant Chrift'is reprefented ftanding 
hi dle right, <« seg ea Fa a Veil to 
> from’ the fam 
N. 3. "The fieft ee ee 
of this plate are before the ee lines were engraved on the 
veil.) The 
a 
the appellation of “ La Vierge au linge.” « tivity, 
a large upright, in an o al border, aaa uido, one 
“The Flight into Egyp 
aes in which Guido has fagodu the oetic idea of an 
angel ftrewing with flowers the path of the holy seagate 
# Jefus Chritt at es on the Mount of Olives,’ from 
«A dead Chrift,” from a veapital eae of 
i from the fa: 
‘Views of two fides of the grand obelifle mperor 
‘Nav vonne, a pair of large -uprig “A. Hole Family,” 
after a picture - Pouffin, in the Houghton gallery. “'The 
Manage af atherine,”? after ignard, a large 
‘upright. “The Baptilin of Jefus Chirift i inferibed is oe 
eft filius,’”’ afc the fam t 
Boroméo adminiftering the Gent to thofe ‘a of the 
t Milan,” from = fame. 
abbé Tellier, ??, in which Time holds up the portrait of 
‘Lo is XIV.,, after the fame, two plates, ovals. “Grand 
“Thefé of Duke Albert, in which Louis XIV. clothed ia a 
. royal Mantle, appears feated, and fupporting himfelf upon 
his Truncheon,”’ dated 1663, in two plates. rand 
‘Thefé of M. de Segnelai, in which Louis XIV. ‘othed 
ain a Roman Habit, 1s accompanied by Minerva and Power,’ 
‘after the fame, in two plates. nd Thefé, the fubjec& 
-of which is “‘ The Difpute between Minerva and Ne 
axfpecting the Name to be given to the City of Athens,” after 
Ye Brun. ' “* The Parable of th without a wedding 
Garment,’’ after Ph. Champagne. “A 
where the Saviour is on the point of expiring, ufually termed 
*¢ Le Chrift des Chartreux,’’ from the fame, in three plates. 
“The Afcenfion,”’ after the fame. ee duaaned Coat 
“prefented to Jacob,” after Ant. Coype 
Nicolas de Po ily y, the brother, ra in fom 
born at Abberl j in the year 
1696. s an excellent de- 
, though fomew ia Geese to his aie 
Hs w 7 ftyle ” of engraving he fuccefsfully imitated. 
He engraved a pect number ‘of portraits, ae well as hifto- 
ne in the ag pee and infcribed Francois de | 
fort ¢ the : 
es {ubje@s, which are ae much valued by connoiffeurs 
r the n Se and precifion of their execution. The fol- 
w of the ‘fabjette, which he engraved after 
“A Head of the Virgin Te without the pallicer? sname, - 
which is however Champa “St. Auguitin holding a 
Crucifix,” from the fame, an upright folio. “A Holy 
Family,?? in wa two ang rels are feen fupporting a bafket 
of flowers ; - Bourdon, m folio. “The Nuptials of 
St. Catherine,” feo om the fame a a po Brena 
in the Temple,’ e Brun, in 4to. he Return o 
the Holy Fa mily pa Egypt,” after the fame, in 
“The Holy Family, with the Virgin having the Infant J efus 
afleep on her Lap,” from the fame; a celebrated piece, 
known under the name of the Silence, in folio. Repofe during 
the Flight into Egypt,’”? Chaprin pinx. in folio. 
n the Crofs between the two Thieves,’’ from Po 
Note, ee fubje& is ees in a much fuperior ftyle by 
Claudine Stella. 
Am oe hie beft portraits are thofe of Louis XIV. 
frame ornamented with laurels, an oval, furrounded by angel 
Sete emblems, after N. Mi nard of Avigno Loui 
XIV. dated 1683, the head of the natural fize. Maria 
herefa, queen of France, 1680, of the fame form and 
diménfions. Louis, dauphin of France, , fon of Louis XIV. 
u 
op of 
Orleans, of the fame fize. Francis de “Borgia, a Jefuit. 
Francis de vai bifhop of Rennes. 
duke of Gefvre, peer of France; after Cl. 
Nicholas Edward Glicr, counfellor to the king, a 
ame. oel de Bullien, marquis o ar hati revives to 
the king; theie are all of the folio dimenfior 
Jean Baptifle de Tally ; the o of Nicolas and nephew 
éf France: was t° Par 669, and died in the 
fame city in 1728. "After eee Nees | - elements of 
defign and engraving, he vifited Rome, with the view of im- 
proving his knowledge of thefe arts. On his return to his 
native country, he d: en dee himfelf by feveral works of 
merity in confequence of which he was admitted a member 
of the Royal Academy. a tyle of Bak eit aa not 
uch ri eb hat of his nele; he advanced 
his plates conliderably in the eeching, and - ther improved 
with his courfes of lines. 
very picturefque effe@, both m his portraits ae Nitorcal 
fubjects; and acquired great honour in his own country, by 
engraving Mignard’s gallery of St. Clou 
Among other fubjee = a following ¥ were engraved by 
him, after different m: 
“The ety of Chrift, as after Gaudentio = 
“© Danae in a den Shower,” from a _ carioon of 
bf 
Julio Romano, in oe cabinet of the duke of Orleans, in 
he Virgin worfhipping the Infant Chrilt,’? after 
The three latter are in 
folio. 
envenuto Gar fale; i in folio. Note, 
the Crozat collection. «The Martyrdom of St. Cecilia,” after 
Dominichino, an Bo folio, intended as companion to 
the « Alms o ecilia,’’ engraved by Francis de Poilly 
rai he Nativity,’ 
im i io “ 
F amily,” inforibed «* Sacra Cheitt Familia ;” after. the 
Rrg fame, 
