Ba: SCHOOL OF ENGRAVING. . 
aie He exe- 
h the grav a fervile, dry 
ea defective in drawing, 
expreffion,. and effect. ve he had the infenfibility to at- 
tempt great things, of which the following are the fubjects 
of afew: 
«s The iapichia ae St. Stephen,’’ and that of «St. d 
ney 7 of folio eae 7 Nicolo del Abbate. - 
Wy a pal 
¢ St. Peter,”’ ae « St. Paul,’ aft r A. Carracci, a plate in 
which the heads and hands a y Bloemar “ 
Madonna in the aé&t of f Adoration,” fon Guid do, in 4to. and 
another from Bernin mualdo,”? founder of t 
amaldales, in -whi ‘ch eds ecleliaftie os are introduced, 
afcending to heaven, an upright folio, after Andrea Sacchi. 
A fet of twelve plates forming an clemen drawing book 
after P. Ferrerio, in folio, and the “ Plage of the Philif- 
ae — the fallen. Idol Dagon,” a folio plate after 
“Bat: we.are chiefly indebted to Baronius for the following 
portraits, which are of the felio fize. John = ieee de 
la Paufe, bifhop of Loudon. _Cardina 1 Aqu e0- 
nard rtiy ar e oe, ee 
Giovani Francefco Rutftici, Gee Mare Antonio Rai- 
mondi raver. d@’Urbino, painter 
Leonard 
da Vinci, Sai and others of diftinguifhed artifts, amount- 
ing in ee whole 
arles Mace he ie een n frequently poonaas with F. B. 
Maffe, the a miniature pain He employed by M. 
Jabach; drawings in his - offe “Gone and to etch 
Caftiglione, are oon his d. 
‘The Angel ccs: Noah to ftore the Ark with 
n mals.” «¢ Abraham and Sarah o n their Way to Egypt.” 
«¢ Abraham irae 7 = 
an in «“ pee roe nding Yeeteats ie Ae 
perce on the Nile.” ae 
parting with his Wife and ape for’ Egypt.” 
« Nativity,” and the « Crucifixi 
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. Etienne, or Stephen Picart, is prefumed by Strutt to have 
been ae - Jol, and to have aflumed the appellation of 
the Roman,) that his works might not 
i pet ener with thofe f his relation; but from this 
miftake his {uperiority as an artift fufficiently protected him, 
nor need he, nor would he, with the oo o jae 
fuperiority, have affumed a fir-name to 
reafona . Tuppoition ie that he chofe ve a called ee 
the Roman, fro y of telling i world that he had 
a None He. ae born t Paris A. D. 1631, 
and. after refiding fome years in Rone returned to ‘his 
e he became a pias tas the French ; ] 
demy, — sand the title ‘of engraver to the kin 
i erdam, — he had retired with his fon) 
at’ the stented age of ninety. 
According to Watelet, Picart executed’ fore phates ia’ 
which etching’ predominates ; but his ar eet orks are 
performed with the graver only, in a ftyle oe oe refem. 
bling that of Fr. de Poilly, though with inferior ais 
yet it is worthy . remark, that fome paffages in his works 
are very fu oe re - as for example 
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oe in the leftchanden er “ Peftilen € 
Vv. 
Of the numerous engravings of S. Picart, it may fuflice 
to mention the followi ing, which are all in folio 
«An Ecce Homo,’’ accompanied a three Raetis: after 
C. Albano.“ The Nativity of the Virgin,’’ after Guido, 
dedicated to Le Brun. « The Nugtials of St. oe. 
after Correggio. Ay pair from a fame painter, of “ Her 
MA - triumphing over Vice,’’ and “« Man delivered =p 
e Pleafures of Senfe,”’ dated | in 1676. nother See 
« St. Cecilia eo on ae el ”? anda “ Concer 
2 Mulic,”’ after Dom in folio, a Tol y Fanily,” 
known under the name of «“ Silence, Ce. which - 
nce been put to fhame by rel ‘beautiful and mafterly 
engraving of the fame fbi et, from the hand of Bartolozzi. 
‘oly Family,’’ after a grand compofition of the 
coe J. 
agon,’’ after 
6 we Jelus ¢ curing — Blind, on leaving Jericho,” afver the fame, 
inferibed Picart, (le Romain,) exc. e Adoration of 
the She pee en after the fame. « St. Pel caufing the 
Books of the Ephefians to be 
< i Martyrdom of St. Ger ar a t 
An 
e fame. 
«¢ A Madonna, with the 
Guil.: Courto 
infant Jefus on her Knees,”? after Noel Coypel. “St. An- 
_ thony of Padua, adoring the infant Jefus,’’ after Vandyke., 
The beft portraits etigraved by this artiit are as follow.: 
fone endy, cardinal of Retz, im 4to. 
piece executed in the ftyle of Mellan, and ee Picart’s own 
r uft of ae Fachenettus, Ot 
s Waddingus, minilter general of the 
order of - St. Francis, after Carlo Mar atti. Melchifedech, de 
Sal 
Neri Picart Rom mands ec. ae XC. he prefident ' 
Claude de: Brion, after A. Paillet, in ane Pierre Loifel, 
doctor of the So oa after F: le Maire, Jean anehs 
Cigula, a prince of the Ottoman ec ae ae “was con: 
verted to the riftian faith, and Frances "Athenais de 
Rochechouart, Seni of Monte tefpan 
~ Bernard Picart, the fon of St tephen n, was born at eee iit 
- year 1663. He ftudied under his father, and being ade 
ted to draw from thelifeat the French Academyat theage 
a are teen, he two years afterwards gained the prize. 7 
faid that he took up the graver with relu€tance ; he conti« 
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