FRENCH SCHOOL 
caer soa yet during the intervals of literature, 
found time to eee ate the fine arts alfo 5 and to mark his 
ea predile&tion for that of « engraving, he even engraved 
his thefis in philofophy. He married at an early age, and 
on vifiting the French metropolis, he voluntarily abandoned 
all other purfuits, and devoting himfel panes to the art of man 
engravi 
ie d. 
fe ay Yy ved in an age w was ppevouced 
ui nade acquainted with his merit, caufed 
him to eee ie: ee in crayons, and was fo pleafed with 
pofel for Nanteuil, * the place of defigner and engraver 
of the cabinct, with the ee y penfion of a thoufand livres, 
which was confirmed etters patent,’? and which our 
artift eae to enjoy with the higheft reputation to the 
time “ae s death.. 
e great care and precifion beftow ed on his 
ae are confidered, and when is confidered alfo the ee 
period of his life, and that the charms of his converfation 
occafioned his naan to be courted. eh men of the firft rank 
of which fome are as lai ne lif ’ cd were mete en rom 
nature, through the medium of crayon pictures executed 
b engraver himfelf. We have mentioned two hundred 
and eighty, becaufe that number were found in the collec- 
tion of Mariette ; but it is not known that Mariette had 
collected the whole of his works. 
Nanteuil appears to have underftood the ‘human face di- 
e we perceive in the characters of his -heads, 
e they were faithful copies of Nature,” 
and when ee is combed with the full ftronger prefump- 
tion arifing from homogeneoufnefs of parts, it will probably 
be received as the rongeft intérnal evidence, and the beft 
affurance that can now be obtained, of : e refemblance of 
bilities of this dep: artment of art, and invented modes of 
combining lines with ftippling, fo as to exprefs the firm foft- 
nefs of flefh whether in light, fhade, or middle tint: hair, 
with all its lightnefs of forms, its native glofs, and its va- 
rieties of flow and colo e he alfo taught his fuc 
of lines, as ay be.feen in his por trait of Louis effelin : 
in the flefh a that of - Chriftina of Sweden, he employed 
now analyfing his art, and meafuring hi 
he n ed, of foft, 
giear, rich, mellow, and charatteriftic aera as: occafion 
-1653. 
OF ENGRAVING. 
e art of his. 
threw the ine fable eon of fimplicit ity. 
e rare and a of the works of this dine 
guithed vattift ar 
A. folio ne of ee The H 
been mentioned, he engraved for 
which he {upported at at Rheims, 
oly Family,’ which, as. has 
the thefis of philofop a 
ios a date of this 
A Time gigas 
te buft of Louis XIV., chile Hitery records his exploits, 
in — «© A Mufe or Genius, and an F agle {fupportin £ 
a Crown and variaus aldry, with the Motto, « Fides,’ 
in folio. “ Cardi Mazarin, feated in the midft of a Gal- 
lery of sa ing fome Maps which are 
and aes confultin 
difplayed before him,”’ after : 
cellor a ata furrounded w 
and of the and Sci Sycee?? “after 
A large head of Chrift, after Guido, 
«“ A Sifter of the Onder of Mercy,’ 
after the fame, in 
Portraits of the eo aesies of Europe, of the iis finey 
2 
e 
dated rats in folio. 
a bull, dated 1664,. 
0 
teuil. a . et feulp. 1 
Eight different pares of Louis XIV. en 
various modes which our artift on time i Sue  lavented’ 
or adopte 
Louis dauphin, fon of Louis XIV. i677. 
prince of Condé, 1662. enry Julius Bourbon, 
d@’Anguin, after P. Mignard 1662. Chriftina queen of 
Sweden, after S. Bourdon, 1654, {mall, and in the peculiar’ 
ftyle which has boa already mentione 
Louifa-Maria, queen of Poland and ‘Sw reden, after J ulte,- 
Charles Emmanuel, duke of Savoy, 1668. Maria: 
Jean-Baptifte, duchefs of Savoy, and Re egent, after Laur* 
du Sour, 1678. Charles, duke of Lorrain, 1660. John. 
aria duke of Brunfwick Lunenburg, after Michelin, : 
4 arles II. duke of Mantua, 1652. William Egon, 
pine of Puftenburg, cardinal and bifhop of Strafburg, 
Louis’ 
1071. 
The speck Sideleas ‘of peep as ftatefinen, warriors,- 
and men of letters, are alfo in fohto, and are arranged in? 
alphabetical ote 
N. duke d’Albret, 1649; this is ss nely f{earée.- 
ee a Amelot, firft agree of yee urt of aids;. 1655. 
Louis Don 
ardinal ani hbifhop of Kheims, 1663.. E 
Philibert Beaumanoir de Lavardin, bifhop of Mans, after 
hampagne. de Bellievre, prefident. of the 
Blanchard,. abbé of St. ardbege 
parliament. Francis 
1673. Francis oe prefdent of the chamber 
accounts, 1653. 
Jacque 
Benigne Boffuet, ioe o of Meaux, 1674. ie ouis is de Boue 
cheret, chancellor of France, 1676. Emmanuel Theodore. 
. la Tour of ? Averg ke of Bouillon and a cardinal, 
1670. Leon Je Bouthillier, count. of Chay vigny, minifter 
of {tate after Champagne, 1652,. Anne Philipeaug Heed 
favin,- 
