FRENCH SCHOOL OF ENGRAVING. 
oo widow of Leon - hae ne 1656, Henry-Au- 
guitus de Loménie, co e Brienne, fecretary of ftate, 
1660. Jean le Camus, pee of eal 1674. Jaques, 
marquis de nari marefchal ef France, 1658. arin. 
areau de la chambre, phyfician to . king. hie Cha- 
matter of requefts, 1664. Jean Chap oun- 
ae eA, d duke de atte 
eer de Clermon t, bifho 
Waleed, 
fellor of fate, 1655 
‘du Cambout ‘de Coiflin, abbé of St. Gildas, 1658. Jaques- 
Nicolas Colbert, abbé of Becq, and afterwards archbifhop 
of Rouen 1670. Jean- ripe Colbert, minifter of {tat 
167 Francis de Bor duke de Cre 
‘guieres, lieuten fateasneel ie, 
@’ Offremont, counfellor of ftate, 1658. 
landes, 16 
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des Lefdi- 
Dreux Dae. count 
Peter Payen Def- 
la Valette, duke of pay colonel-general, 1650. 
Cefar d’Etree, bithop of London, then cardinal, 1660. 
Andre Je Fébre d’Ormeffon, counfellor of ftate, 1654. 
-Gafpar de _ counfellor of the par rae of Touloufe. 
Nicolas Fouquet, fuperintendant of the finances, 1661. 
Pierre Gaffendi the philofopher, 1658. “Me Ichior de Gil- 
lier, countfellor of the king, 1652, and madame de Gillier 
is wl e, a Hebi are print. Francis Guenault phyfician, 
1664. de Guenegand, marquis de Plancy, fecretary 
-of ftate after Champagne. _ e Harlay de Chau 
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1676. Peter Jenne firft prefident of the par- 
 Doninick de Ligny, abbé and afterwards bifhop 
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a parliament of To ulou : I 
i Edward Mole, 
prefident of the agerielaa 1653, aed in our biogra- 
phy of the ssi ) yb - ay marquis of Mony, 
1651. Fra de Nefino bifhop of Bayeux, 1663. 
Nicholas Poe de Novion, ne prefident 3 oe parliament, 
1656. ee Paris d’Orleans, coun t. Paul, after 
Ferdinand, 
hbi Louis a de la Vril- 
1662. rauld de Pom- 
ran Pa de 
e, arehbith fhop of Rheims, 1651. 
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Pierre Seguier, chancellor of France, a — x ae: 165 
thee opus m t. Briffen, of Paris, 
Fra cis Servien, bithop of Ba oe ene Cham- 
Ee icc. Jean Baptitte ia Steenberghen, termed. 
“ the Dutch advocate,” after du Chaftel, 1668. This is 
il. Denis Talon, advo- 
le Tellier, arehbifhop of 
Rhein 1663. Michel le 'T Tellier chancellor of France, 
1662. Michel le Tellier, eon e Louvois, fecretary of 
enri la r d’Auvergne, vifcount de 
Francis de la Mothe le Vayer, 1661. 
Audran was born at Lyons "A. D. 
cate-general. 
1631. 
m .we have 
alre en; after whi i 
he a Tuell ‘his ftudies 
He afterward returned to Lyons, w engraved an 
publifhed a confiderable number of prints, confifting of or- 
naments, ceilings, vafes, &c. id a faa eal — 
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to 
ards a proniio: of i ay 
eftablifhed a one in och city he died in ‘the year 1710, 
leaving four fons who were all artifts. 
His beft portraits are thofe of Charles Emanuel II.- and 
Frances d? Orleans, in the fame oval, after Caravaglia; car- 
dinal Richelieu inan oval, ornamented oy laurels, and The- 
ophilus Reynard, dated 1663, in foli 
The chief of ie other engravings are a fet of fix plates of 
defigns for ceilings, after George Charmetin ; another fet 
of fix ornamented “vates after N. Robert ; a book of friezes, 
after la Fage, a large book of Italian views after Funcus, 
fix landfcapes from le Gafpie, anda fet of eu) defigns for 
ountains and maritime friezes, after le Bru 
Of Claude A.udran, the fecond of | ca aac and whofe vir- 
tues, fays the abbé Fontenai, were as praife-worthy as his 
talents were i no ag bea have been mentioned by his 
biographers, and none have been feen by the prefent = 
though Paice ae: of fn as having been an en g 
He was born in the year 1639, and died at Paris in 1684. 
Girard or Gerard Audran is at once t 
brated of his family, and the boa 
rov 
this way, 
ed his competitors in the race, that it may 
eafily be begat he _ ms mvented this art, -had it not 
previoufly e melled, or not fubmitting to 
fuch anne as ace en ee part of the art of engraving 
impofed on his contemporaries, he looked with bolder 
vifion-into that of painting, or rather he looked both abroad 
into the phyfical world, and into ay dae as of his own 
vigoro us mind, for the materials and was 
guided alone by the light which ne ars Oars refieGed on 
each other. 
That he was thoroughly —— in the academical part, or 
grammar, of his art, may in his work, entitled 
“« Les proportions du ele fanaa fur les aa belles arate 
de Vantiquité, a Paris, chez z Audran Gra fo Roi 
oe work publifhed 
and fo out-ftrippe 
in 1682 5 3 and it ma ard i in "the 
bro on original, and c mprchenfive was the ityle of 
our artift, that Watelet has eat faid of him, “ he 
painted ai the etching-needle oo Loe = o fur- 
pafling thofe all other artifts are his engravings after 
Le Bru , and Le Sueur, fone it may a afferted of 
Audran, ‘almoft aan an hyperbole, that he poffeffed the 
power of animat heir forms with his own foul; as was 
fabled of the nee puilofopher of old. 
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