FRENCH SCHOOL OF ENGRAVING. 
nued, however; both to defign and erigrave at Paris until the 
740, when he accompanied his cua to ini My 
ng to ut certain 
offers that were aoe him td the Dutch Pook fellers induced 
him to alter his m continued to refide at Amfter- 
dam to the time of his fea, which ha pened on the 8th of 
May 1733. He was twice married, bilt it does not appear 
that he . any-children. 
art of Picart’s life was {pent in making drawings» 
which are high'y finifhe 
is invention. He un ood the human figure, ut in 
of ‘his heads followed. too much the _fafhion of af- 
thirteen hundre 
oft of thefe pitc indeed were fmall, and were engraved 
as embellifhments to books, for which he was famous. is 
ityle confifted chiefly of etching, and bears confiderable re- 
femblance to that of Le Clerc. According to Watelet, the 
tafte of the Dutch amateurs of that day impaired the sel 
of our artift, by inducing him to deviate from the path 
which nature had pointed out to him, and while he ee ee 
ated a fortune, he loft the efteem of the judicious. If his 
and taftelefs, ive oe with his {mall plates. 
He fcraped a few mezzotintos, among which is a Nativi- 
ty from Carlo Maratti, ~_ Fer ing a certain degree o 
dexterity in ae the s of other artifts, he under- 
took, towards the clofe of ie life, what he “called innocent im- 
i after his 
publifhed at all ; it confifts of feventy-eight plates, 
with the ee oe ‘explanations, and li 
works, a {mall folio volum 
fo} 
at of Kea 
d, and fufficiently teftify the fertilty 
nder 
fure ;’’ and after Le Brun, “ Hagar difmiiffed from the’ 
Houfe of Abraham,’’ dated 1707. 
His principal agai are thofe 
of Stephen Picart the 
r to the 
ing, &c. ay saan _ 17155 (en 
in 
etching dated 1714. The following kings of England after 
Vandyke, Kneller, and Vanderwerf, Char les I, Charles II., 
Jamed II., William III., and George I. Prince Eugene 
[oe prince of A fturias ; 
olland 5 Edward Cla- 
d 
Kneller. Bifhop Burnet, after Fr Pierre 
cardinal de Fox, (who terminated the {chifm, and gave 
ce to the fee of Rome,) anda medallion of Philip, a 
of Orleans, fupported by Apollo and Minerva ; after A 
Coypel. 
Nicholas Petau was the fon of James Petau, an engraver. 
from Antwerp. 
and died inthe fame city 1 
fanlarty ars texture vibich he has 
tra and back-grounds, give a a tain chara 
idity to a ee vings. telet how praifes the. 
works of this artift acral highly, and pad ey his 
Holy Family, oe) phael, for beauty o 
of ae vigour arr fice of effeét, and the true ren= 
dering of the characters of Raphael. 
The following engravings by this mafter are held in moft 
—— beginning with the hiftorical fubjects, which are all - 
of infi-- 
4°¢. 
s abo poemencuee Holy Family,” after Rie, 
Of his other engrav ings, emt remarkable are, “ The rein St. n is kneeling, as if to receive the benedi€iion 
Maffacre e the Innocents,’ in we all folio, from his own de- a the ee eee «© A Madonna reading, with the In- 
fign, the firft ee he of which are known by we poe fant in her Arms,’’ on Guerchino, an oval. Angels 
printed before the crown was placed on the hea Her a over a Dead Chrift,’’ after the fame. “ Chrift in 
s¢ The Epithalamia,”’ a fet of twelve plates, aura for the Bepulchre, with nai attenda nt Angels,’ after Car- 
tafte and delicacy with which they are cuted, and confift- racci. he unciation,”’ after Champagne. 
ing of jon a lengthways, and four uprights, 1 in quarto. « Jefus Chrift, the Vine and St. John in the Cae in- 
* The A of the Dutch Rep ublic.’’ Of thefe are par- terceding fo Bruno, while feveral Monks are feen on 
icolary remarkable the Gone which i is “« The prince o 
Orange,” “ The Maffacre of De Wit,” and « The Synod of 
Dort ; ” five allegorical frontifpieces for R mei “eee nae 
Religious Ceremonies, Banier’s Ovid, e Didio 
and Atlas Hiftorique, Esta - Philofo ae in Beare of 
m is Defcartes,’’ dat 
a fub- 
«¢ The Trjumph of Painting,’’ engraven in 1725, in folio 
ss Children f ee ees by # rTOWS, in folio 
ora- 
tion of the inreabl Tally o of the a Nex of ae Figh- 
teenth 
Laas he competion of other mafters Picart has en- 
aay e Truth from the Yoke of the 
Paffion « The Re Death, or Shepherds 
of ro via ¢ 3’ and an a egorical dance,. escled, «¢ The 
Pi&ture of Human Life,”’ all after fter Le 
Sueur he has apa a pa 
Terpfichore,’’ and « Darius caufing the Tomb of Queen 
Nitocris to be a in the Hope of difcovering a Trea- 
ed 1703, in” 
where the infant Jefus is feen careffing thé little St John, 
after I. B. de Champagne. “ St. Sulpice, or the Bifhops - 
affembled in Council,” Pafter the fame. “ A Buft of the 
Virgin,” after Le Brun. “ A Holy Family.’’ wherein an 
angel is feen Pecan a batket a flowers to the infant 
Jefus, after Vi 
is princi cipal ‘portrait are in felio, and are thcfe of 
Alexander VII., on a pedeftal, infcribed P. Mignard pinx. 
Rome, N. Pitau e Parifiis, ee Louis XIV., a three- 
qu pai figure in armour, Cl. le Feure pinx. Louis Dau- 
phin, fon of Louis XIV., after ve fame. oe Prioli 
writing the hiftory of France in Italian; after the fame, 
hae ae 1667. 
rofe Chapelle, bithop of Anvers, feated at a 
table, a ih Perez Brant. Cafpar de Daillon du Lude, 
bifhop of Albi, after Juite van ae ont. Vincent de ae 
paftor of the congregation of St, Lazarus, after S. Fra 
of tooling, purity: « 
