FRENCH SCHOOL OF ENGRAVING. 
two plates ofa a ee with Audran’s battles 
reer triumphal entry into Babylon,’ (of which the.firft im- 
reffions have of Con the printer, feratched 
zndemeath with the ci needle. 
Hyacinthe Ried ; nam ozier the genealogitt ; 
Martin Vanden Bogaert, re feulptor and Madame Helyot 
‘ and after P. Champagne » a portrait of ons lf, and thofe of 
Arnald.d’ Andili, and Nathaniel “A ilgeru 
Guillaume Chateau, (or Cafte was hou at Orleans 
A.D. 16 His ftrong defiré a urfuing the fine arts in- 
duced him at an early period of his fife to remove to Lyons, 
_ in order to vifit Italy at a let sid dereanel After 
having worked in that city for fom at the profeffion of 
engraving, he determined to go eas: where hearing, 
on his arrival, of the eee which Prederi Greuter had 
acquired. as an engrav: acquaintance a 
became js difciple. ae Grete he completed his poet ; 
was foon employed to engrave the por of the popes 
and had numerous other ee put ne his eee in a 
. fucceeded fo well as to eftablith his character as an artift. 
He now travelled to sean Parma, Genoa, and other 
feats of art, in order to contemplate the works of the great 
matters s, and’ afterwar ds returned to Lyons, where he re- 
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which was occafioned by a violent fit of the cholic in the 
Ere ge 
Paes worked chiefly with the graver, of which he pof- 
feffed great command ; but in fome inftances has etched his 
landfcape back grounds. e is much clearnefs in his 
ttyle, but from the {quare manner in which his farft and fe- 
cond courfes of lines interfecét ea ch other, a cold and metallic 
poorly n 
and care, rather a by ae us and ta: 
“The principal hitorical engrain BS or Chateau are of the 
folio ie and their fubjects . 
y rophets David, Daniel, aa and Habakkuk,” 
froma panne attributed to Raffaelle, in the church o 
Madonna is Popolo; but according to Bota, painted - 
Roffo, en on two plates. na plate, our 
artift has converted thefe doubtful ponies ae the fou 
fter 
- Child,” ina border 
After Noel cc. 1 we find ok 
Holy Tanily containing five figures, and a Madonna and 
of flowers; and after his own compo- 
fitioa, oly Family,’”? and « A Repofe during the 
Flight into Poee. the Iatter of which is partly a plagi- 
ariim from Correggio 
Cf his portrait the beft are, the bifhop of Ruette; Jeaw 
Baptitte ert, an oval; and thofe, of the popes, ‘which 
have bee y mentioned. 
Nicholas Chateau. is fuppofed to have been a Lona and 
perhaps the fon, . He was born at Paris 
1680, but of his death, or the courfe Of his ftudies, we find 
no account. 
His beft works area portrait of Boucherat, from a draw- 
ing of his own. half-length figure of “ A young 
Lady richly attired and holding a Mafk,”’ after Santerre, and. 
dated 1708. “ A you i 
Female finging, ha- 
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bited in the Grecian Cittame. | “Fall folio, dated 1708. 
‘ Venus attempting to diffuade Adonis from going to the 
Chace,”’ dated 1706. ‘ The Transformation of Daphne 
into a Laurel.” Rinaldo and Armida,” dated 1708, all 
“«“ St. Jerome in the D 
Balth. Peruzzi, engraven by Chateau in conjunction with 
L. Sle Ta 
Pierre Simon was born at Paris in the year 1640. He 
prefumptively ftudied 3 in tie ‘Tchool of Nanteuil. 
Like him 
he aa and engraved portraits from the life, and thefe 
are his beft w — indeed they poffefs no. inconfiderable 
degree of m 
only “hiftorical work of Simon with which we are 
ry is the “ Martyrdom of St. Cormo and St Da- 
mien,” a folio Plate, after Salvator Rofa, _ 
gth arae in an oval, very 
large and foun an ornament: 
the Glave. the heads (as seen o ing aan much 
“fafhion of the time es) are as large as life. t por- 
traits of this very large fize {liould be engraven in ies 
would appear as furprifing as ‘ - ee eae if it were 
Louis XIV. after Le Brun, dated 1677. 
not fo common. 
Loui uis de ee prince of Cons dated 1678. Anne 
Maria Louifa ans, duchefs de Montpénfier. Eliza- 
beth Cha latte Palat tin 2e, duchefs of Near 3 all from pic- 
evangelifts miraculous Fifh,”’ Raffaelle. < The ee Sim n hinfelf and Leo P r de Gefores, abbé 
Baptifm of Jefus Chrut,’’ after ss Ananias re- eee of Berna s, after De Troy. 
ftoring Sight to St. Paul,’? after P. da Cortona. “The 
{toning of St. Stephen,” after a “The Affumption 
of the Virgin,” after Carracci. ‘The Saviour with the 
Crofs, meeting St. Peter,’’ who fays to him, «Domine quo 
waa &c.’? after the fame. « Repofe e during the Flight into 
ra kneelin Madonna admiring the infant Jefus 
reggio. * A Holy Family,” in which the ‘fait See is 
ftanding on a globe, after Carlo Mar 
From the admirable picture ‘of Poulin, Chateau has en- 
graven “ The Ifraelites collecting Manna in the Wilder 
nefs;’? “ Chrift reftoring Sight to the two blind Bien of 
Jericho ;’? “ St, Paul caught up into the third Heaven ;”? 
acquiring the rudiments of engravin 
Guillaume Vallet al born at Paris A.D. 1626 After. 
ng in France, and appa- 
rently in the {chool of TF. de “Poilly, he travelled to Italy 
for improvement, but returned after fome: years refidence at. 
Rome, and died in his native city in the year 1704. as 
worked with the graver only, and his ftyle bears an inferio 
Sinan to that of de Poilly: yet he is Seton 
eep-toned and vigorous in his cae (ones His Principat’ 
hitorieal engravings, which are of the folio fizey are 
follow 
6< Tl he Nativity,’? almoit fquare ; «6 Melchifedec bringing 
Prefents to Abraham,” and the er,”’ all after 
Raphael, and’ the latter infcribed “ Pi@tum a Rapha ele 
Urbinate Ree in Palatio Vaticano.” “A Holy Family”. ; 
: after 
