FRENCH SCHOOL 
avith his seen obtained for him an apartment in the eu 
lins and a on 
oval. 
in the a sae and a Roman knight by cone * Cle. 
men 
In the year 1672, he was appointed to ae the Mau- 
foleum, erected by the Royal Academy of ie in = 
church of POratoixe at ial under the direCtion e Bru 
~ for which he received a penfion of three hundr at livres fom 
academy, and the fo eae year fe married Charlotte 
Jeaune, daughter of Vanden Kirchove, the king’s dyer at 
the Go ie lins, by whom he had eighteen children. 
It is eae no the hei oe Se of a ha pelea in France 
might, even at that t e feeming than The 
rapid i incre er of his family, ery a fecret San ue pros 
ly, that his inventive talent was reftrained 
tled upon him b 
annexe to it. 
& Eno 
or 
ore 
he pul iC, the vi 
s for eel pe he 
eee ion of his 
n his. own 
tions of t 
ae d a Paris A D._. » aged feventy-feven 
years, or was a in the ak of St. Hippolito, in 
which parifh he refided. 
erhaps no artift difplayed a ss auid diver fity of e 
deca than Le Clerc. From his mathematical {cience, and 
the ftudies he connefted therewith, he ane an enlightened 
architect, engineer, and a teacher of perfpective ; from his 
f drawing, his various reading, and les ftudy of 
allot ; above bid from the energy 
hed defigner - 
a Fren 
the works of Le Brun an 
landfcapes, animals, r i 
turns the fubjects of his pencil and his graver. is com 
variety, his draperies fim- 
ple and b is is head 
noble and characte niltic, while their ace is indicate 
with the addrefs of a confummate art He ftudied in the 
of 
of le Clerc’s engravings ; for, in confequence of fuch 
reduction, Le Brun loles his own defects, and retains only the 
oa {tyle of the Ronn f {chool. 
m thefe praifes of the French writers, Huber, Roft, and 
Bal, fome {mall deductions fhould a sis made on the 
core of national partialit In his engraving, Le hog erc 
pe reall employed fingle courfes of lines, and a 
the f{pirit and firmnefs of Callot, than of the takeful ei 
which charms us in the works of Della 
Oar a allow us to mention but few, comparatively 
fpeaking, numerous works. We begin with thofe 
. tak en from a faced hijtor 
The m of the Prophet Elias.” «The Apotheofis 
wherein the landfcape is a view of the 
ef the - Prophet,” 
“ The Repentance of 
falls of Niagara, both in {mall folio. 
the Ninevites.” «The young Tobias with the Angel cn Ve 
Banks of the Tigris,” {mall fo lo. & The alling ‘of 
kam,” in gto. “The Anntnciation,” inferibed Virgmi aes 
by his. 
OF ENGRAVING. 
Angelo falutate. The anand of the Kings.” where 
a page . {een carrying arobe to one of them, a very fearce 
rint. “A am iy “as oes e the roan Jefus is feen 
between the Virgin and St. Jofeph, “all three ftanding. “The 
ttle 
Infant Jefus fitting, and oe him the li fs 
kiffes his Hand.” “The Good She pherd,”’ as defcribed by 
e prophet Tfaiahe An allegory on 
madame Guyon, a diftinguifhed piece in {mall f 
John the Daptitt fitting beneath a Re “6 The} Miracle of 
and Fi 
one of the chef-d’ccuvres of the 
the Loave es,”” 
artifk, in final folio. 6 ibs Saviour fenga in the midi of 
ten Apoftles.” An Ecce Hom acce mpanied ee 
feveral foldiers. “* A Cruc wifi ona She of dark Clou 
e WM artyrdom of St. 
‘The Pee a 
Tepe a our Lady of Confolation at peas » «St. John 
the Evangelift writing in the Ifle of Patmos.” « The. Bark 
of St. Peter,’? inferi cd ee is, qui erant, &c. 
Subjects i om profan fifo: Ory, re and modern.— 
“The entrance of Ale dee into Bab ‘lon,”’ a diftinguithed 
piece in folio. In the firft eee the hero is feen in p 
7” the fubfequent im preffion 
cers are reprefented {urrounding an altar, in the fubfequent 
impreffions their place is fuppli lied y facrificers, « ied 
and «< ”? a pair of fingle { figures, in 8vo, mely 
fearce. ‘The Map the Gobelins,” a folio rint j in n honour 
e Bru 5 cademy of a i e firt 
prose of which rey felon of a flag and tor 
prefented in the foregro 
phal aw of aoe XIV. 
capital pi e, in foli 
Stockholm,’ ok contains the burial place o 
of Sweden, improperly called the tomb of the king of Por- 
16 
o aa 
a 
a 
tugal, folio, 4e atafalque erected in the Church 
of Stockholm for the Obfequies of Charles: XI. of Sweden,”’ 
1697, in folio. « Pi peri of Chancellor Seguier,’’ 
ah a, r apie A pair in folio 
th 
in ia his tockholin, valued for their tafteful 
execution. ‘ Proceffion of the Knights of Ai Order of the 
Holy Ghoft, on the Quay of St. At uguit in at Paris,’’ in 
folio. «The Gam a ane of Nantes,’ 
piece, engraven in 1668, in folio; (a bad artift retouched 
this plate in 1694, on put ieee it re-engrave ed y Carreau. ) 
Allegory in praife . re paciaene Hercules 
and Alexander “a ie cageies « Plures non capit ae 
1684, in gto. Venus rifing from the Sea.” ce 
termed “la premiere Venus,” and engraved for M. Patier, 
in 1693, in gto. 1€ aa ee called «la feconde Venus,’’ 
n by le Cler in the contrary direCtio 
ag the death of le Clere oi Eifen added to ia plate 
a Triton, which pufhes the Chariot, and a ying 
before it.) he Tomb of M. Bonneau in the neal of, 
Tournay,” after Girardon, 1685. «Two Vafes of 
ne Plate, furrounded with an ornamental. 
“The Fortrefs of ne apace taken by: 
M. a Catinat, ale 21ft Dec. 1691, in 
he following are ufuaily bound in Te oie és —Figur 
ahutraive of the paffion of our Saviour, in thirty-fix tall 
plates. Reprefentation of the inftitution of the order of. 
urius for the redem 
Another ate be ae for. 
hs. 
