i 
- {culptor, painted by bes 
- Jmitated the works of Poufiin, n. 
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fame, from ‘the eine of the king, in folio. The grand 
faloon at St. Cloud, (by Mignard) namely, « The i ee 
f the Gods ; oe Wo rktho ape Vulcan ;’ 2? « The 
of St. Clon, after the fame. 
s.? * Summer, 
Sacrifice in ig peels of Cere oe oe pune , the Triump 
of Bacchus and ‘Ariadne. ae bie Cybele imploring 
A ftatue of Truth, after 
the Return of Sol,’ in folio. 
rnini, in folio. “The Judgment of Solomon,’’ after 
Antoine Coypel, i in folio. * Sufanna accufed by the Elders,” 
after the fame. A pair, “ tune armed with his Trident, 
and ftanding ona Dolphin,” and « Jupiter grafping Thunder, 
and feated ona @loud, 2» inferibed Fr. Verdier inv. J. de 
Poilly fc. in folio. 
eft portraits are thofe of Corneille van Cleve, 
Francis de Troy, painter ; 
from a picture by him ment nae Pontifex max. 
pila Rdward Stuart, | a whole length figure o 
foot, after Dupra. Louis XIV, after Misnard. They are 
all of the folio fize 
Nicolas Loir, the fon of a gold{mith, was born at Paris 
i e oe ae 
un 3 and in his 
ome, where he fuccefsfully fudied a 
On his return to Paris, be 
foon became oe by the merit of his produCtions. 
e painted many pieces for the palace of the Thuilleries, 
and the para of Verfailles ; and fo delighted was the king 
with his s, that he conferred on him a penfion of four 
Strutt fays that he beftowed too little at- 
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fieubad livres. 
tention in revifing his fir thoughts: yet his compofitions 
are not without intelligence’; and his figures, ef{pecially thofe 
© na offefs a cer sa ie of de- 
licacy and expreffion. He was early adm a mem 
er of 
the royal per and at the time of his ‘death held the 
fituation o 
Loir en graved, with confiderable freedom and fome talte, 
about a hundre nd fifty pieces of different forms, fome of 
much more finifhed than the generality of painters’ 
“OF thefe the following are efteemed the moft 
able : 
A feries of twelve plates illuftrative of the hiftory of the 
holy family, in {mall quarto, and ofthe upright form. “A 
Madonna poe a Infant ae ”” « A Madonna fitting, 
with the Infan er Kne adonna, with the 
Infant afleep,”’ inferibe “ Epo Priteie 72s A Madonna, 
with the Infant holding a Crofs in his Hand.” «A re- 
eumbent Chrift, embracing Le Crofs and Crown of Thorns, 
ae his Eyes turned — eaven.”” The Judgment 
aris.’ Daphne chz into a el.” «Th 
flial Piety of Cleobis aaa Biton,’”? who drew the chariot of 
efteemed to be, on the whole, a of Loir’s ee 
T'wo large*landf{capes, lengthw 
‘Alexis Loir, the younger re hee of Nicholas, was born 
at piu in 1640, and-died in the fame city in1713. Young 
was an excellent defigner and a though partly — 
cd a gold{mith ; his manner w: 
Paine and he knew hows to a cert: 
accordi afters after whom-he engraved. 
ae feveral etchings, but his croffed hatchings were 
3 
orous, and eXx- 
is ftyle 
OF ENGRAVING. 
too fquare, and his ie = much an too sae — 
for this {pecies of engra We add a lift o beft off 
the works of this artift, w a are in general Pa an di 
menfions, 
6 Gis _ Education of Mary de Medicis ; ” after one of 
Lux ixembourg, 
g Herely 
ae a from the fame matter, in folio. “ The different 
Nations cf Europe; after Ch. le Brun, in folio. “The Fall 
of the rebellious Angels,” a the fame ; large and en 
on two plates. “The of th 
e fa iN nience 
o pilates. A weepin Madonna 
with the dead Chit o on he Knees,’ ” after p. Neer, Ee 
folio, a large upright, arched at the 
of Mofes,’’ Mi 
fl 
c. Loir, in folio. A Holy Fam 
are “the ea Jefe j is fitting on a crofs, after the 
pene o, and of the circular form. “A Ho 
e fame 
a capital piece. 
n was born at Rheims about the year 
16 He was the brother-in- 
law, and according to ae Fre ae — the es uctor, o 
the cele at Nanteuil, but he. was only five years older, 
and Strutt with more probability afferts that he oe rned from 
= 
a eS 
rye 
- 
5 
Nanteuil ae art of en graving. heir tha sa confidera- 
ble refemblance, but the argument which be derived 
from the Aiea vigour of original feeling is Ege in fa. 
vour of Nanteuil. 
The cgevings . ; Regoafon are aa es con ids im 
fro 
efteem. 
notice : 
y Fremin fecreta to the queen-mother. Car- 
dinal ate de Moga rin ty a4 frame oak. 
» gran 
3 and the ier 
> 
sé The Marriage of St. Catherine,’* round, bordered 
Nees wii infcribed Nic. Regneffon fec. i 
Ho 
. oly Family,” by Regneffon Nanteuil, in fo. 
lio. “ A Madonna, with her mene ”? after Le Brun, 
in folio, « A B of - Infant Savion? after the fame, 
donna with ay Infant Jefu 
the little St. John,” after F. Bourdon, in folio 7 we and 
Stephen Gantrel was born at Paris i in ee 6, but t ear 
of his death is not recorded. | 
i which the fubjecs are pag as alfo a great 1 
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