FRENCH SCHOOE OF ENGRAVING. 
triumphs of Charles 1V. duke of Lorraine, on twenty- 
three dee of which two are engraved by Dervet of Nancy, 
folio. Rests of Charles, duke of Lorraine, 
the — edition 
Paris, 1673, in 12mo. Alay Me 
ferade; thirty-nine plates, Paris, 16 uarto. 
Labyrinth of Verfailles, ae thirty-nine plates of 
fables, with the frontiipi iece, Paris, 16775 in pane of 
which the firf Soe is now wv fea arce, 
ere three 
De afi = by : “Seb re, in 
T veatile on Coe. feat (be 
the figures engraven in woo od, after Le Cler » to the 
ber of near three hundred,) eighteen compe. by him- 
felf, Paris, 1690, in o€tavo. ” Tapeftries of the king, on 
which are ae efented the four Elements, and the four Sea- 
fons, -e with the cai accompaniments, forty- 
eight plates, after Le Bru The firft edition is dated 
1670, and is in imperial ale “« The Battles of Alexan- 
der,’ afte Brun, fix plates with t ifpi 
e four Victories,’ : a the furren- 
der of Tournay, and that of Douay, the defeat of count 
de Marfan, and that of ee Swifs Confederacy, in folio. 
Con 
«“ The Conquefts of the King,’ in bias las as plates, 
thirteen of winch are sig aves by Le Clerc; namely, The 
Ifle o ; For chenk; the Town o imeguen ; 
City of de Grey; Battles of Sintzheim of ape ig an 
fina; Views a Agofta, Bouchain ; of Ago fla 
Battle of Palermo ; 3 L’Efcalette ; Battle of Calfel ; 3 in folio: 
effer C 
? in eight plates; namely, Views of 
the Battles of Caflel, and St. Omer 3 
udience sven to i mbaflador of Siam ; Demolition 
of the temple of Charenton; the Combat of Leuze; the 
Blockade of Namur, in quarto. 
Views and _ ae 1 ‘Si de View of the ad 
of Le Cler 
“Th e emi Be the Aqueduét of 
Joui, near + a ‘and the villa Age of Joni,” "dan 
va views - og 
» dated 1695. A feries of vy 
dens, perfpettives of cities, rocks, re ruins, Caen to 
the marquis of Beringhen, twelve finall pieces, numbered. 
Thirty-feven plates of {mall landicapes and figures, sical 
and engraven for the inftrudtion of the ma rquis of Courten- 
laft of which are not always found in thi 
In the one is feen a cavalier turning his horfe ; 
and in i other an arcade, 1690, 
eft portraits by Le Clerc are, Sebaftian Le Clerc 
landing before a deflc, with eeu other figures, a piece en- 
P AUX = 
titled «‘ Le Cabinet de M. le Clerc,” not finifhed. Small 
portrait of a Turk, dated 1656. Abraham Fabert, feigneur 
Marfhal de la Ferte, rare. Egonde 
s S. Anoie Virdunenfis,”? a whole length 
figure in a {mall thee I Torquato Taflo, and M. 
Potier, “en medallio 
Louis de Chatillon + was born at St. Menehould, in Cham- 
pagne, in 1639, and died at Parisin 1734. Whofe difciple he 
ia Strutt mcs not sere nor have the French writers men- 
oman taken in A - 
66 The onverfi f St. Paul,’’ after the fame. “ The 
Seven Sacraments,’’ painted at Rome by Pou for the 
Ht t 
Chevalier de Pozzo. «“ St. John of Patmos,” 
after the fame. « The Fates weaving the Deftiny of Maria de 
ano ’’ after Rubens, all in folio. Te alfo engraved 
three b cooks, two of which contain the fountains for the 
iron horfe at Verfailles, and the third for the pavilions of 
arly. 
Jaques Blondeau, os pay was born at Langres A.D 
e travelle ome for profeffional improvement, 
and probably, indgng on his of engravin ied 
there under Cornelius Bloem junction 
ftyle refembling th 
equalled that mae, either 
tion. is pri are comparatively 
the Fume ‘of his fig 
f the already m 
engraved oe of my Deer oe allegori ical 
they are in {mall folio, and the few following engravings by 
= artift, (the beft of his works) are all of the folio fize, 
Martyrdom of St. Lawrence,”* after the fame 
“ "The Cae of St. eee a Bernini. 
«The Circum- 
“ Chrift, w th he two Maries and 
«¢ St. 
erri. 
St. John at the Foot of the Crofs,’’ after the fame. 
Auguttin appearing to St. refa,’’ 
P 
he 
al Francois Laurent Brancati, 1681 
Cardi li 
dolf, archbithop 0 
Pallavicini. General Ene as, count de Caprara 
duke of Modena. Jean-George III. elector of Saxony. 
John Sobiefki, king 2 Poland. Cardinal Bichi, after Le 
ae eas in an ov 
arles Giiesean e was born at Orleans in the year 1639, 
and.died at Paris in 1728. He learned the pl rinciples of 
drawing from Noel Coypel, and the ae of soa in the 
a of William Chat teau. His firit 
the graver only, 1 
Poilly ; but he Penne an up the gis and the prints 
which te produced by an union of both, are infinite 
to thofe on which etching was not 
correctly, “and his beft plates, (which are as ie ») ar 
Finifhed 4 ina neat and pleating ityle; and are, with an ex. 
ception or two which we fhail ee a of the folio clafs, 
«The Virgin eee ina Landfcape, holding the infant 
Jefus feated on the Fragment of aruined Building, and be- 
fore him the little St. John on his ee after a painting 
of Raffaelle in the Efcurial. “ Hagar in Defpair com. 
forted by an Angel,”’ est ae Seca The Vire 
