FRENCH SCHOOL OF ENGRAVING. 
Guido Patiz, doGtor of medicine at Paris 1670, extremely 
rare and in an extraordinary whe mee Pati, ese of Guy ) 
‘doctor of medicine ; another hef of Maffor. 
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Seve pinx. Lou 
Michael Colbert, abbé of Premontres, 1674, Maffon pinxit. 
William de eee , fecreta ary to na benefices i in aa 
pinx. a exan o 
Antoine Turgot de St. Clair, mafter of reque 
Marie de Lorraine, duchefs of Guife, N. Mignard pinx. 
Portraits in very large folio. Anne of Anita, ay of 
France, P. ee ete pinx. Maria Therefa of Auftria, 
queen of Fra N. Mignard pinx. nne Victoire 
de Baviere, dauphinel of France. 
f 
jea 
d’Aveaux, 1683. s de uvilli 
cae Pransois con cs Meee, ee fhop 
16 776 e Bignon, librarian to the poe 1686. 
Denis Marin, ia to the king, 1672. Louis dln 
count de Crecy, counfellor of ftate, 1679. olas e 
amoignon, count de Courfon, 1676. Count 
rd 
Aveni pinx. Ant. Maffon fc. a mafterpiece of engraving. 
In the following inftances the sii are of the natural aw 
fize3; but-o on this immenfe scree 
n did not attain the 
fame P d 
his Gc bei eing lavifhe 
y ex i : ue s XIV, ina hat, ad 
ae XIV., ‘after le Brun; a ei 
- Jean 
@ Auv ergne, ‘vifeo unt de Turenne 
"Fellier, marquis de Louvois. Nicolas Potier de Novien, 
firft prefident of the parliament, 1679. William de La. 
_ moignon, firft prefident of the parliament, 167 5+ 
and engraved in the fame ftyle as himf 
prin de are much valued, and are equally rare as thofe of her 
fath 
a following are a few of her moft diftinguifhed produc- 
tions : 
Eliz jae Charlotte, Palatine, Duchefs of Orleans, the 
inferibed «* Mad. Maffon fc. under 
i li Elizabeth d’ Orleans, 
M ad. 
er of thofe coloffal engrav- 
ings cas were ve performed a about this ‘period may be regard- 
. of Chalon. 
: the fame city 
t, he was 
Charles ‘s 
ed as one of the sou acne _ of an age when the big 
was too much miftaken for 
René Lochon was ee _ Polly about the year 1636. 
He fettled at Paris, where he publifhed a great number of 
afters. 
at of Nant efpecially 
ough his w su are decidedly inferio 
Re ere r0f 
rto 
; dee of that great ma ft wore of diitinc- 
tion, are ¢€ Telus Chrift bearing the Crofs,”’ after Carracci, 
anda “ Holy Family,” after N. Coypel, dated 1668, both 
in folio. 
The ‘belt of his portraits are alfo in folio, - are thofe of, 
a young magiftrate in an ag border 
infcribed R. Lochon ad viv 1 del. 
de Bourbon, bifhop of Soiffons, Ib. 
Lepeville, bifhop of Conikance, 1661. 
Bealthafar Phelipeaux de 
Bee leaves, 
et pa 1¢ bade 
ad vivum fec. 1667. Jenome Bignon, a celebrated author of 
the laft tury. eid vivum furtim del. ct fe. 
Louis de Marillac, doctor of tk onne, 1696. Paul the 
young: f the c my of Jefus. Harduin de Perefix, 
archbifho 
: after Champagne. Antoine 
Jean eg sie born at Paris A.D. 1636 and died in 
eyear1711. He has title of orna- 
mental eNenee ) wit king, and fo gre as the reputation 
he enjoyed, that he was con feaniay employed, sare for the 
court or city, in ornamental decorations. His brother Louis, 
who was alfo a fkilful defigner, affifted him in thele. work: and 
s alfo occafionally | affifted by Chaveau and 
oine. 
To his etchings he has not pie cana his name ; they 
are on but too ftiff and t aftelef 
a3 
rks 0 cae er are fourteen ere —_ a 
fet of heraldic eee in 4to. three folio plates of ornaments, 
invented and executed by J. Berain; a comic fubje& of a 
man sen two dogs; an opera ballet, and two plates of 
Maufo 
ee dela Roiffiere was born at Paris in 1637. Hee 
graved not only after his oo defigns, but alfo after thofe 
of Sebaftien le Clerc. likewife executed medallions of 
Genevieve, a work in folio, 
printed in 1679. Several of ue plates in the work entitled 
“the oe te the Kin re alfo from the hand of 
this artift; whofe belt aia on the whole, are, 
ee The Death cr a Prince fur Poe by his Court ;’? fron- 
tifpiece and feveral vignettes for M Blondel’s grand courfe 
d’architeéture. ier ear for Jean Picart’s wo h 
ans of the earth e plates for the work of An- 
oine era 8 er 66 Traté des edifices antiques de 
a fet of forty plates “ Sone medals in folio ; 
“c ‘A View “of the eae Royal,” in two plates, and a {et of 
twenty-fix plates of views, aie 8, pie sey &c. of the 
royal palaces, of w ie however, Boiffiere engraved only a 
he s Lubin was born at Paris in the y 
He = oh the ii of G. 
he rps imita 
rk on the 
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